★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 (Factory New)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 in Factory New (FN) is a CS2 butterfly knife with a blue-green marbled blade and black handles. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It drops from two cases: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. There are only two wears, since the float scale ends at 0.08 and nothing follows Minimal Wear (MW). This wear of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 carries a float of 0.00 to 0.07.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 looks like in Factory New

The blade is flooded with a marbled mix of turquoise, light blue and emerald green: the colors are lighter near the tip and darken toward the heel. The handles are black, with two long, bright lime-green inserts along each half, and the latch is green. The cutting edge is light, and there are no inscriptions on the blade.

In Factory New the paint is intact along the whole length of the blade, and the handle ribs are untouched. Wear is locked in at the drop and does not change.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 came from

Valve drew the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4, and there is no Steam Workshop submission for it. In the company's finish catalog, Gamma Doppler stands at number 572. The finish came to the butterfly in September 2021 with Operation Riptide, while the model had appeared in the game earlier, in 2014. In Valve's note of January 21, 2022, the Gamma Doppler knives are named rare special items of the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

Phase and pattern

Gamma Doppler is a family of finishes, and the phase goes right into the item name: Phase 4 is picked on the page, not pulled out of a case. Phases 1 to 4 are regular, and the family's only gem is Emerald. Gamma Doppler has no Ruby, Sapphire or Black Pearl.

Within one phase the copies still differ: the pattern index changes the ratio of black, green and turquoise and where they sit on the blade.

What to check before buying

When choosing the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4, pay attention to the following:

• the phase in the lot title: Phases 1 to 4 and Emerald sit in separate lots and are hard to tell apart in a preview;


• the name tag: a name can be applied to the butterfly, so an inscription on the blade or handle shows in the listing photo;


• float: there is almost nothing to choose by, since the stretch of 0.00 to 0.07 is short.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear for this finish takes only the band from 0.07 to 0.08, one hundredth of the scale, so almost every copy falls into Factory New. The price comparison to make is not between the wears but between the phases and finishes of one model.

Among the Covert finishes of the butterfly, Phase 4 sits in the middle of the row. Gamma Doppler Phases 1 and 3 are higher by a few percent, Night and Lore by four to five percent. Case Hardened is lower by about a seventh. The top of the row is held by Doppler Black Pearl, Doppler Ruby and Gamma Doppler Emerald, the bottom by Bright Water, Forest DDPAT and Freehand.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4

This butterfly drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the phase comes at random. The other route is a trade-up: five Covert skins of one collection give one ★ item, and neither the model nor the phase is chosen there. Phase 4 specifically is bought only as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

The StatTrak™ version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 4 in exactly Factory New is reasonable when:

• you want a blue-green blade with lime-green inserts on black handles, and no marks on the edge;


• the budget does not reach Emerald, but the Gamma Doppler butterfly is wanted;


• your CS2 loadout is built in turquoise and green, and the knife becomes its focal point.