★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald in Minimal Wear (MW) takes the upper part of a short scale that the finish cuts off at 0.08. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. Besides MW the finish comes only in Factory New; there is no third wear.

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

The blade is flooded with dense green: the lacquer is heavier toward the heel, light turquoise patches are scattered across the face, and the dark green swirls have sharp borders. Both handles stay black, each half with a gray-blue stripe from the pivot to the tip. The latch is green, and the pivot screws and lock are bare metal. A butterfly knife in CS2 fans open, and in that position both sides of the blade show at once.

The float limits here are 0.07 and 0.08. The wear fits inside 0.07 to 0.08, so every listing looks the same. Marks settle on the cutting edge and on the raised ridges of the handles, exactly where the knife is held.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald came from

No outside artist stands behind the finish: Valve made it, and no Steam Workshop submission is attached. Gamma Doppler reached the butterfly knife later than the knives from the Gamma cases, by five years. The release is dated September 21, 2021, and Valve's post "Introducing Operation Riptide" came a day later and opened that same operation. In January 2022 Valve added the same gamma knives to the Dreams & Nightmares Case as a rare item. In the Valve catalog the finish is number 568.

Phase and pattern

The item name contains the phase, and you choose it on the page: for Gamma Doppler that means Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4 and Emerald. In CS2, gems are the rare variants of the two finishes. Emerald belongs to Gamma Doppler alone, while Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl are tied to Doppler.

Within Emerald, the pattern index changes how much green, turquoise and black the blade carries and how they lie. Sources disagree on a premium for a lucky pattern inside a gem. Some pattern guides keep a separate "Max Emerald" tier, while others recognize no rare variations of the gem at all. Do not count on such a premium.

What to check before buying

What separates one ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald listing from another:

• the phase in the name: Emerald and the four ordinary phases sit on different pages;


• the float: it barely moves within the wear, but it is still worth confirming;


• the applied name: the knife takes a name tag, and someone else's text comes with the item;


• the version: the StatTrak™ variant is priced separately from the normal one.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald costs in Minimal Wear

In Minimal Wear this gem is second from the top among the model's Covert finishes: only Butterfly Knife | Doppler Ruby costs more. Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 2 sits noticeably lower, and Butterfly Knife | Fade and Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 trail by a factor of three. Factory New on Emerald starts at about the same level, so a clean blade carries almost no premium.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald

The first route is cases: both the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case hand the knife over as a rare ★ item with a random phase. The second is a craft from five Covert skins of one collection, which returns a random knife or gloves. Only buying a finished listing gets you the phase you want.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald has a StatTrak™ version; no Souvenir release was ever made.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald is worth buying in these situations:

• the price gap to Factory New is small, and the listing with the index you want turned up here;


• you want a green blade paired with black handles rather than gray metal;


• the first marks on the edge and the handle ridges do not bother you.