★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate (Field-Tested)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in Field-Tested (FT) is a CS2 butterfly knife with a dark blade and black handles inlaid with light laminate panels. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Cases are its source: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish exists in all five wears, with floats from 0.00 to 1.00, and this wear is given the band 0.15 to 0.38.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is dark gray with the mottled texture of worked steel: Valve writes that it went through stonewash treatment. The handles are black, set with laminate panels in beige-gray swirls that resemble wood or camouflage. The holes in the handles and the mechanism at the base of the blade are dark as well.

In Field-Tested, wear marks on the dark steel show along the blade edge and on the gloss of the handles. Wear is set at drop, and copies from the two ends of the 0.15 to 0.38 span stay different.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate came from

Operation Riptide began on September 22, 2021, and Valve released the Dreams & Nightmares Case on January 21, 2022.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate rests on these points:

• you do not pick this knife by pattern, because it is the same on every listing;


• in this wear the band is 0.15 to 0.38, and listings from the two ends of the span look different;


• applied name: a name tag is allowed, but a knife has no place for stickers;


• StatTrak: a butterfly knife with a counter is listed as a separate item.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.3 times as much, and Minimal Wear 1.06 times. Well-Worn is cheaper by a factor of 1.06, and Battle-Scarred by 1.09.

Compared across Covert butterfly knife finishes in Field-Tested, Black Laminate sits a little above the middle of a lineup of eighteen: seven cost more and ten cost less. The nearest above are Crimson Web and Lore, and the nearest below are Stained, Freehand and Ultraviolet. The top of the lineup belongs to Autotronic, Blue Steel and Slaughter.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate

The knife drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear comes out random. A contract turns five Covert skins of one collection into a rare special item, but chance decides which one. The butterfly knife you want is bought as a listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in Field-Tested is reasonable when:

• you want a dark butterfly knife with light inserts, and Factory New costs 1.3 times as much;


• the pattern is no lottery, so copies differ by float and by the look of the edge;


• your CS2 loadout is black and gray, and the pale handle panels supply its only contrast.