★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 (Factory New)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New (FN) is a turquoise-green blade on black handles, one of the regular phases of Gamma Doppler in CS2. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The Butterfly Knife drops from two cases: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The float stops at 0.08, so there are two wears. Factory New takes the 0.00 to 0.07 band, and Minimal Wear (MW) takes the remainder up to 0.08.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 looks like in Factory New

The blade is flooded with turquoise and green: light sea green at the point, the green thickening toward the middle, and dark blue near the heel. The lacquer lies in a marbled haze with no sharp boundaries. The handles are black, with an olive-yellow stripe along each half, and the latch is greenish-turquoise. The cutting edge stays light, and there is no lettering on the blade.

In Factory New the metal is bare nowhere. On a Butterfly Knife wear lands first on the toe of the blade and the raised ribs of the handles, and the first such marks appear already in Minimal Wear. Wear is fixed at drop, so a Factory New copy stays Factory New.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 came from

Valve drew the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2. No Steam Workshop submission exists for Gamma Doppler. It reached the Butterfly Knife on September 21, 2021, with Operation Riptide. In Valve’s finish catalog it is number 570. On the Karambit and the M9 Bayonet, Gamma Doppler appeared five years earlier, on June 15, 2016.

Phase and pattern

In Gamma Doppler the phase is part of the item name: the buyer picks Phase 2 right in the listing instead of pulling it from a case. Phases 1 to 4 are regular, and this finish has a single gem, Emerald. It is sold as a separate item, and a noticeable price gap separates it from Phase 2.

Within a phase the copies still differ: the pattern index changes the ratio of black, green and turquoise and their placement on the blade. On the neighboring Phase 3, copies with an excess of turquoise are called “BTA Cyan”. What a top index fetches on Phase 2 specifically, our data cannot say.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2, a few points deserve a look:

• the phase in the listing title: Phases 1 to 4 and Emerald are separate items, and in a preview the green shades blend together;


• the placement of colors on the blade, which is what sets copies of one phase apart;


• the name tag: a Butterfly Knife can take one, and it has no sticker slots;


• float: this wear is a tight 0.00 to 0.07 band, where a difference between listings is hard to catch.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs about a twelfth more than the top wear here. For a finish whose scale ends at 0.08, the gap is small: there is no extra to pay for the clean edge of Factory New.

Among Butterfly Knife finishes, Gamma Doppler Phase 2 stands level with Fade, Ultraviolet and Doppler Phase 3, the differences being within a few percent. Lore and Night are an eighth cheaper. The three other Gamma Doppler phases are about a sixth cheaper, while Emerald costs almost three and a half times as much.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the phase comes out random. A contract is the second route: five Covert skins from one collection give one rare special item, but the model and the finish are not chosen on the way in. A specific Phase 2 is bought as a finished listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New is sensible if:

• your CS2 loadout is built in green-turquoise tones, and the price of Emerald does not suit;


• you want an edge without marks;


• you do not want to overpay for Minimal Wear, which on this phase costs more than the top wear.