★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire (Minimal Wear)

This is the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire in Minimal Wear (MW). It is the thinnest step on the scale, 0.07 to 0.08, a single hundredth, because the finish itself never goes above 0.08. A Covert rank knife with the ★ mark, it drops in CS2 from the Spectrum Case and the Spectrum 2 Case.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire looks like in Minimal Wear

The whole blade is blue, with purple seeping in at the heel and pale sky-blue glints scattered over the flat. The handles are black, with a glowing turquoise stripe along each half, and the latch is blue. The pivot screws and the lock are bare metal.

Because the wear fits inside 0.07 to 0.08, listings look the same. Wear is fixed at drop: it takes paint off the cutting edge and the raised edges of the handles, and the turquoise stripe may rub at its borders.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire came from

The Steam Workshop has nothing to do with this knife: Valve drew the finish. Doppler on the Butterfly Knife came out on March 15, 2017 (per csgoskins), and the finish is number 416 in the Valve catalog.

Phase and pattern

The phase is part of the product name, so the buyer chooses it: Phase 1 to 4, Ruby, Sapphire or Black Pearl. Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl are known together as gems.

Within Sapphire the pattern index changes only how the texture is laid over the blade. CS.MONEY says the gems have no rare variations, while Pricempire ranks copies (for Ruby, "Max Ruby" is a blade with no dark lines). The sources disagree, so there is nothing solid to base a premium on for the index within a gem.

What to check before buying

On a ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire, these are the points that count:

• phase in the name: Sapphire is a gem, and you pick it right on the product page;


• float: 0.07 to 0.08, and listings are almost impossible to tell apart;


• name tag: the knife takes one, and the text goes with the listing when it is sold;


• version: a copy with StatTrak is sold as a separate product.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs nearly the same as Minimal Wear: the gap is under three percent, even though the Minimal Wear segment is many times narrower.

Sapphire is second from the top among the twenty-eight Covert Butterfly Knife finishes in Minimal Wear. One finish, ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Ruby, costs about one and a half times as much, and twenty-six cost less. Below it come Doppler Phase 4, Doppler Phase 3, Gamma Doppler Phase 2 and Fade, each roughly half to a third of the Sapphire price.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire

The Sapphire Butterfly Knife drops from the Spectrum Case and the Spectrum 2 Case; the game decides the phase, the gem and the wear.

A craft from five Covert skins of one type is the other route. It returns a random rare special item from the collections of the skins put in, and the model and finish are not yours to choose. A Sapphire can only be had on purpose as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire in Minimal Wear makes sense in these cases:

• you want a gem, and Factory New costs almost the same;


• you are interested in the gem lineup, where Sapphire sits above Phase 4 but below Ruby;


• your loadout is built around blue and turquoise, and black handles fit in.