★ Butterfly Knife | Lore (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore has a float of 0.00 to 0.07, and its price has moved far away from the other wears. Minimal Wear is cheaper by 2.1 times, Field-Tested by 3.1, Well-Worn by 3.3 and Battle-Scarred by 3.6. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Both the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case hold the knife, and in CS2 it is the butterfly done in gold.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore looks like in Factory New

A fine Celtic ornament covers the golden-yellow blade, and in the factory-fresh wear its lines read in full. The olive-green handle with round cutouts carries amber-colored inserts; the latch hook and the pin are gold. There are three colors here: gold, olive and amber.

The float of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore lies within 0.00 to 0.07, only seven percent of the finish's scale. You can buy here almost blind: the 0.00 to 0.07 band is tight.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore came from

The finish is tied to Operation Riptide, which Valve announced on September 22, 2021. The knife's second source is the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

What to check before buying

These are the parameters to check in a listing of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore:

• float: a knife at 0.00 is cleaner than one at 0.07, though the wear is the same;


• name on the knife: look in the listing itself;


• version: a StatTrak listing is a different product with a different price.

Phase and pattern

The pattern of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore repeats from listing to listing without change. The finish has no phases, which means wear sets the price, and in Factory New it is the highest.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore costs in Factory New

Among the thirty-three Covert butterfly finishes priced in Factory New, Lore stands in the middle: nineteen cost less, thirteen cost more. The nearest neighbors are Doppler Phase 3, 9 percent higher, and Night, almost level, while Gamma Doppler (Phases 1, 3 and 4) is cheaper. The most affordable here are Bright Water, Forest DDPAT and Freehand; at the ceiling stand Gamma Doppler Emerald, Doppler Ruby and Doppler Black Pearl.

Between the wears, prices spread like this:

• Minimal Wear is cheaper by 2.12 times;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by 3.06 times;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by 3.34 times;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by 3.61 times.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore

Lore has two cases: Operation Riptide and Dreams & Nightmares. Wear is set at drop, so a factory-fresh knife is not guaranteed. The alternative is a craft: it needs five Covert skins of one type (either all normal or all StatTrak). What comes out is a random rare special item, and you cannot set the model or the finish.

Is there a StatTrak version

The finish also comes with StatTrak in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore in Factory New is justified in these cases:

• you want a golden knife with a clean ornament and no visible signs of wear;


• it matters that the float sits within 0.00 to 0.07, which means listings barely differ;


• you want the best of the finish's five wears, and the price next to the lower wears is no obstacle.