★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 (Factory New)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 (Factory New) is a CS2 butterfly knife with a blue-green blade from the Gamma Doppler family. It is Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and the knife sits in the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish has two wears, and its float stops at 0.08. This wear of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 has a float of 0.00 to 0.07.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 looks like in Factory New

The blade is curved and covered in turquoise, blue and green, with dark clouds of marbled texture drifting across it. The handles are black, and a long, bright green stripe is set into each one; the latch is green too. A short serrated section shows at the base of the edge, while the cutting edge itself stays light.

In Factory New the marbled lacquer is worn away nowhere. Wear is recorded at the drop and does not change afterward. In this wear the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 sits in a narrow band, 0.00 to 0.07, where a difference between listings is hard to catch.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 came from

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 was created by Valve, with no Steam Workshop submission behind this finish. Gamma Doppler reached the butterfly knife in September 2021, with Operation Riptide, five years after the knives from the Gamma cases. On January 21, 2022, Valve then put the Riptide Gamma knives into the Dreams & Nightmares Case, again as rare special items.

Phase and pattern

In Gamma Doppler the phase is written into the item name: you pick Phase 3 on the page instead of pulling it from a case. There are four phases, and the family has a single gem, Emerald. Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl belong to Doppler.

Copies of one phase differ in how much black, green and turquoise they carry and where it sits, because the pattern index decides that. Phase 3 copies where turquoise dominates are called "BTA Cyan". How the colors spread on a particular copy shows in the listing image.

What to check before buying

Check these before paying for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3:

• the phase in the listing name: Phase 3, the other phases and Emerald are separate items;


• the share of turquoise on the blade, which shows which layout a copy is closer to;


• an applied name: a name tag already on the butterfly knife stays with it when you buy;


• the edition: StatTrak copies are listed separately.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 costs in Factory New

Phase 3 is the cheapest of the four regular phases: Phases 1 and 4 are four percent higher, and Phase 2 a quarter. Emerald costs about four times as much.

Of the butterfly knife's 33 finishes in Factory New, Phase 3 lies right in the middle: sixteen cost less and sixteen cost more. Night is a sixth higher, Lore four percent, and Case Hardened a tenth lower. At the top stand Gamma Doppler Emerald, along with Doppler Ruby and Black Pearl. The bottom is held by Bright Water, Forest DDPAT and Freehand.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3

From the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 drops with a random phase and wear. The contract is a second route: five Covert skins from one collection give a rare special item, but neither the knife nor the phase of the result can be chosen. A particular phase has to be bought as a listed copy.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 3 in Factory New makes sense under these conditions:

• you want a regular phase without paying extra for Emerald, which costs about four times as much;


• you want a blue-green blade with black handles and green inlays;


• your CS2 loadout is built on green and turquoise, and the black handles do not clash with the rest of the kit.