Rarity vs Price in MM2

What rarity actually describes

The tier on an item card (Common, Rare, Godly, Chroma and the rest) describes how hard the item is to get in Murder Mystery 2. It is a statement about drop odds and availability. It is not a price, and it was never meant to be one.

The tiers are coloured and sorted like a price ladder, which is what trips new buyers up. Two items on the same tier can be worth wildly different amounts, and a lower tier can outprice a higher one: Icewing is an Ancient and trades below several Godlies, because two duping waves put far more of it in circulation than the tier implies.

What are the MM2 rarities and their colours?

Knives, guns and pets each carry a tier, and each tier has a colour of its own: in the game it is the colour behind an item's name, and players sometimes call a tier by its colour alone. Six tiers come out of the shop's weapon boxes, and events and trading supply them as well; the other three have never come from a box. These are the MM2 Wiki's colours, with a hex code where it uses one, and its odds for the first knife box and the first gun box:

A colour only ever tells you the tier. The yellow FX tag that some weapons carry is a separate label, explained below.

The wiki counts eight tiers, not nine. It files Chroma under Godly, and a Chroma's own page gives its rarity as Godly. It also groups Chroma with Evo and FX as item types rather than tiers: an Evo knife evolves from Rare to Ancient as you earn XP with it equipped. Two tiers have had other names: Vintage was called Classic until Season 1, and Unique was first called Victim. Rarest Items in MM2 goes further into Ancient, Vintage and Unique.

The wiki also notes that some weapons are rarer than some in the tier above, and that tiers stay put: Evo knives aside, no weapon has ever moved up one, and very few have moved down. Flames, once an Ancient, became a Godly in the Season 1 update of May 2019 after it was duplicated. So a tier records how hard an item was to get when it came out, not how many copies exist now.

What does FX mean in MM2?

FX is a tag the game puts on weapons with effects of their own, which the wiki describes as custom holding animations, glowing lights, sound effects and trails. It isn't a tier: an FX weapon keeps its own.

The first, by the wiki's record, was Gingerscope, the gingerbread sniper rifle at the end of the 2023 Christmas pass. It carries the tag in yellow, was the first gun with its own idle animation, and is still an Ancient. Every other weapon on the wiki's FX list got the tag in the 2025 Summer Event. The Godly pair Sunset and Sunrise and the Evo knife Synthwave came out with it. Evergreen and Evergun, Godlies from Christmas 2023, were given it then, and so were all four Godlies' Chromas.

It isn't a knife effect either. Effects such as Radioactive are add-ons you equip on a knife, and they can't be traded.

Why the ladder breaks

Supply keeps growing, or stopped

• An item you can still obtain in-game has a supply that increases every day it stays obtainable. One from a finished event is capped forever.

Demand follows sets

• Gingerscope's intended partner, the Evo knife Gingerscythe, cannot be traded at all, so traders pair the Ancient sniper with an uncommon knife, Gingerheart, instead. What an item can be matched with moves it more than the tier on its card does.

The top tier is thin

• At the very top, so few trades happen that there is barely a market to read: the MM2 wiki records seven confirmed owners of Nik's Scythe, and while MM2Values still puts a number on it, SupremeValues refuses to and prints "Priceless".

How to use the tier, then

Use it as a filter, not as a valuation: it narrows a catalogue down to items in roughly the class you are shopping in. Then compare prices within that class, on the specific variant you want, and let the asking prices tell you the rest.

MM2 rarity FAQ