★ Butterfly Knife | Stained (Field-Tested)

★ Butterfly Knife | Stained in Field-Tested (FT): a CS2 butterfly knife with a pale blue-gray blade and black handles. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The finish drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. It comes in five wears, and the float runs the full scale from 0.00 to 1.00. Field-Tested of this finish lies between 0.15 and 0.38.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is curved and silvery blue, with dark blue blotches and rings like streaks on old steel. The handles are black, and in the cutouts on them sits a light insert with the same blue-gray smudges. The latch and the pivot pin are dark. Valve calls the patina forced, meaning it was applied artificially.

In Field-Tested, the marks on the edge and the tip of the blade already read. Wear is set at drop, and a copy stays as it fell.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained came from

The butterfly knife appeared in the game in 2014, with Operation Breakout. Stained sits in the weapon case of that same operation, so the finish comes together with the model itself, with no later cases involved.

What to check before buying

On a ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained listing, these are the parameters to check:

• float: the wear is stretched from 0.15 to 0.38, and the blade shows it;


• the edge and the tip of the blade: compare them against the screenshot of the listing;


• name tag: a butterfly knife can carry an applied name, and it stays after the purchase.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained costs in Field-Tested

In a ladder of eighteen Covert-rank butterfly knife finishes, Stained stands exactly in the middle: nine cost less, eight cost more. Nearest above are Lore and Black Laminate. Freehand and Ultraviolet are almost level, and Night is lower. Autotronic, Blue Steel and Slaughter stand at the top.

Across the wears of the finish, the spread looks like this:

• Factory New costs 1.7 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs a twentieth more;


• Well-Worn costs a twentieth less;


• Battle-Scarred costs the same share less.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the wear is random. A contract of five Covert skins from one collection returns a rare special item at random, so this particular butterfly knife cannot be picked there. It is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

It is reasonable to buy the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained in Field-Tested in these cases:

• a butterfly knife with a cold blue-gray blade and black handles is wanted;


• steel and dark-blue loadouts in CS2 get a fitting knife;


• it matters that Factory New costs 1.7 times as much, while the other three wears differ in price by no more than a twentieth.