★ Karambit | Case Hardened (Field-Tested)

The ★ Karambit | Case Hardened in Field-Tested (FT) is a karambit in CS2 with hardening swirls, where every copy has its own layout of colors. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The knife drops from eleven cases, from the CS:GO Weapon Case to the Revolver Case. The finish's float scale is the full 0.00 to 1.00, so it has five wears.

What the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened looks like in Field-Tested

Valve writes that the knife is hardened in charcoal at high temperature, hence the mottled color of the metal. The curved blade shimmers gold, straw and light blue, with lilac swirls toward the tip. The handle is dark gray and ribbed. The ring at the end of the handle is brass-colored and is also covered in hardening swirls.

The ★ Karambit | Case Hardened in this wear is held to a float of 0.15 to 0.38. In Field-Tested the wear on the blade is visible: it takes the tip and the cutting edge of the curve first. The wear is fixed at drop, and the copy does not change afterward.

Both 0.15 and 0.38 fit inside this wear on the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened, and the two ends do not look alike.

Phase and pattern

Case Hardened has no phases, but it does have a pattern index, which determines how the colors lie on the blade. Copies with mostly blue on the front face are valued separately from the rest, and it is the layout of color, not wear, that sets listings apart.

The index is not visible in the listing title, so copies are compared by picture.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened, check the following:

• the front face of the blade in the picture: the more blue on it, the dearer the copy;


• an applied name: a name tag is possible on the karambit, and it stays on the item after the purchase;


• the version: a StatTrak listing is a separate item;


• float: within 0.15 to 0.38 the wear grows with the number, and the difference between the edges is noticeable.

What the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened costs in Field-Tested

Factory New is dearer than Field-Tested by 2.6 times, and Minimal Wear by 1.3 times. Well-Worn is an eighth cheaper, and Battle-Scarred a seventh.

Among karambit finishes in this wear, only three stand higher: Blue Steel (by four percent), Autotronic and Slaughter. Below lie Black Laminate (by eight percent), Crimson Web and Lore. Boreal Forest is almost half the price. The comparison here starts from the cheapest copies: how much higher the blue ones go cannot be said from our data.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened

The case-hardened karambit drops from eleven cases, among them the CS:GO Weapon Case, the Operation Bravo Case, the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case and the Revolver Case. The pattern index and the wear are decided at drop. A contract is the second route: five Covert skins from any mix of collections give one rare special item, and the pattern you want cannot be chosen there. A copy with blue is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Karambit | Case Hardened in this wear is worthwhile if:

• you want a case-hardened karambit and Factory New costs more than twice as much;


• your CS2 loadout is built in gold and light-blue tones;


• the picture of the listing shows the pattern you need, and the wear does not interfere.