★ Karambit | Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred)

On the ★ Karambit | Blue Steel, Battle-Scarred (BS) covers the float stretch from 0.45 to 1.00. It is a Covert karambit with the ★ mark for CS2, and it drops from eleven cases.

What the ★ Karambit | Blue Steel looks like in Battle-Scarred

The blade is blued: a cold steel-blue gleam runs along the spine and turns silvery nearer the edge. The handle is matte, olive-gray and finely knurled, and a red dot sits on it at the base of the blade. The ring carries the blade's blue.

You can buy this wear anywhere from 0.45 to 1.00, and across that stretch the scuffing builds up noticeably. The drop fixes the wear. A knife at float 0.95 carries more scratches on its bluing than one at 0.50.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying a ★ Karambit | Blue Steel:

• float: the long band gives a visible spread in the condition of the blue metal;


• applied name: a name tag can go on a karambit, but it takes no stickers;


• version: a StatTrak™ copy is sold as a separate item and costs more.

What the ★ Karambit | Blue Steel costs in Battle-Scarred

Here is the bottom wear of the finish. Factory New costs 1.98 times as much, Minimal Wear 1.17 times, Field-Tested 1.14 times, and Well-Worn costs the same.

Among Covert karambits this is the top of the row: only one finish costs more, and sixteen cost less. Closest are Damascus Steel (1 percent lower), Case Hardened (4), Black Laminate (6), Crimson Web (8) and Freehand (10). Only Autotronic stands above, and the floor belongs to Boreal Forest, Safari Mesh and Forest DDPAT.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Blue Steel

The finish has eleven cases. They are the CS:GO Weapon Case, the eSports 2013 Case, the Operation Bravo Case, the CS:GO Weapon Case 2, the eSports 2013 Winter Case and the Winter Offensive Weapon Case. Five more complete the list: the CS:GO Weapon Case 3, the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case, the eSports 2014 Summer Case, the Operation Vanguard Weapon Case and the Revolver Case. Crafting is the second route, from five Covert skins of one type, and the finish is not chosen there.

Is there a StatTrak version

StatTrak™ comes on this finish too.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred on the ★ Karambit | Blue Steel is worth buying if:

• you want a blue karambit with a blued blade at the lowest price of the finish;


• scuffed metal does not bother you, and in a CS2 loadout color matters more than cleanliness;


• you want a finish from the upper part of the karambit row, at the price of its lowest wear.