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

The ★ Gut Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New (FN) is one of the four regular phases of Gamma Doppler on this model. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. In CS2 the knife drops from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case. The phase has just two wears, Factory New and Minimal Wear (MW), because the float ends at 0.08.

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

The blade is flooded with minty turquoise lacquer, with dark, greenish-gray swirls, and the color thickens closer to the hook on the spine. The handle has a dark red wood-look scale and turquoise rivets, and the cutting edge is light.

In Factory New the lacquer is intact on both the hook and the edge. Scratches land first on the point and the hook itself, so in the top wear this end is clean. Wear is fixed at drop.

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

There is no Workshop submission for the finish: Valve drew Gamma Doppler itself. Its number in the finish catalog is 570. It came out on June 15, 2016, with the Gamma Case. Emerald exists only in Gamma Doppler, and this finish has no Ruby, Sapphire or Black Pearl.

Phase and pattern

Gamma Doppler is a family of finishes, and the phase goes straight into the item name: the buyer picks Phase 2 instead of pulling it from a case. There are four regular phases, Phase 1 to Phase 4, and the finish has one gem, Emerald, the brightest and most expensive phase of the series. Within a phase the copies still differ, because the pattern index shifts the placement of colors.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Gut Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2, check the following:

• the phase in the listing title: Phase 2, Emerald and the other phases sit on different pages and are hard to tell apart in a preview;


• the name tag: the knife can take one, and it has no stickers;


• float: the 0.00 to 0.07 stretch is short, and the difference between listings falls within the margin of error.

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

The finish has only two wears, so the price between listings is moved first of all by the phase rather than by wear. On the 0.00 to 0.07 stretch there is no better copy to find: it is too short.

Among Covert Gut Knife finishes, Phase 2 sits in the upper part of the row. Above it stand Emerald, Doppler Ruby, Doppler Black Pearl, Case Hardened and Autotronic. Blue Steel is slightly cheaper, and the least expensive finishes of the model are Bright Water, Freehand and Damascus Steel.

Getting the ★ Gut Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2

The knife drops from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case, and the phase comes out random. A contract also works: five Covert skins from one collection are put in, a rare special item comes out, and the model and the finish are not chosen. Phase 2 is selected in advance only as a finished listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

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

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Gut Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 in Factory New is reasonable if:

• you want specifically Phase 2, not Phase 1, Phase 3 or a gem;


• untouched lacquer on the hook and the edge matters;


• your CS2 loadout is built around a turquoise blade with the dark wood of the handle.