★ Karambit | Lore (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Karambit | Lore in Minimal Wear (MW) is a golden blade with a Celtic knot and a dark handle. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Its 0.07 to 0.15 band takes about twelve percent of the 0.00 to 0.65 scale. Two cases hold the knife in CS2: the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case.

What the ★ Karambit | Lore looks like in Minimal Wear

A dense weave of Celtic knot lies across the golden blade: thin lines form a lattice along the whole flat. The handle is dark olive with deep finger grooves, and the ring is gold.

In Minimal Wear the marks on the gold are still shallow. Wear is fixed at drop, and the knife stays as it was.

Phase and pattern

Every ★ Karambit | Lore carries the same pattern. The finish has no phases and no gems.

What to check before buying

Points to compare between listings of the ★ Karambit | Lore:

• float: on this wear the band is short, 0.07 to 0.15, so there is no reason to chase the number;


• the condition of the gold at the tip of the blade and on the ring;


• the name on the knife: a name tag is allowed.

What the ★ Karambit | Lore costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs half again as much. Below come Field-Tested (cheaper by 1.36 times), Well-Worn (1.38) and Battle-Scarred (1.52).

Of the thirty karambits priced in this wear, Lore sits in the middle: seventeen cost more, twelve cost less. Slaughter is higher by roughly a seventh, Case Hardened by an eighth, and Blue Steel by only a few percent. Black Laminate is lower by roughly a tenth, Ultraviolet by almost a fifth. The dearest are Gamma Doppler Phase 3, Sapphire and Emerald.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Lore

You get it from either of two cases, the Gamma Case or the Gamma 2 Case, or through a craft of five Covert skins of one type. All five must be normal or all five StatTrak. The result is a random rare special item from the collections of the skins you put in, and the model and finish are assigned without your choice.

Is there a StatTrak version

StatTrak exists for the ★ Karambit | Lore as well.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Karambit | Lore in Minimal Wear makes sense in three cases:

• you want a golden karambit, and Factory New costs half again as much;


• the gold on the blade should stay almost even, with only light scuffs tolerated;


• your CS2 loadout is built on gold and dark details.