★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand (Field-Tested)

The ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand in Field-Tested (FT) are a pair of CS2 push daggers with lilac frames and dark blades covered in silver marks. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The pair has two sources: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish's float runs from 0.00 to 0.48. There are five wears, Field-Tested takes the 0.15 to 0.38 segment, and Battle-Scarred is squeezed into 0.45 to 0.48.

What the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand look like in Field-Tested

The frame handles are lilac, with a metallic sheen and several finger cutouts. Each blade is lavender and glossy at the base, then turns into a field of dark purple and black with silver marks that look drawn in marker. Valve says the knives are painted black and purple and decorated with metallic marker.

In Field-Tested the wear shows on the points and on the edges of the frames. The pair stays in the state it dropped in, since wear is fixed at drop.

Where the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand came from

The Operation Riptide Case came out on September 22, 2021, together with the operation itself. Valve released Dreams & Nightmares on January 21, 2022, and the finish is in that case as well.

What to check before buying

Before taking the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand, look at these points:

• the wear in the listing name: Field-Tested and the four neighboring wears are sold as separate products;


• the applied name: a name tag is possible on push daggers, and Valve corrected where the name sits on them in its notes of September 2023 and September 2025;


• the version: a StatTrak pair counts as a separate item.

In this wear the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand span a long band, 0.15 to 0.38, so it is worth comparing several listings.

What the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand cost in Field-Tested

Field-Tested is the cheapest wear of the finish. Minimal Wear costs 14 percent more, Well-Worn a quarter more, Factory New the same, and Battle-Scarred 1.3 times as much.

Freehand sits in the lower half of the row, with eleven finishes above it and six below. Damascus Steel is level with it, while Night, Ultraviolet and Autotronic are one to three percent higher. Bright Water is two percent cheaper, Urban Masked three, Safari Mesh four, and Boreal Forest and Black Laminate ten.

Among the finishes above it, Scorched is 12 percent higher, Lore 17, Forest DDPAT 18, and Blue Steel and Stained 28. Crimson Web costs 1.4 times as much, Case Hardened 1.9 times, and Slaughter 2.3 times.

Getting the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand

The daggers drop from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear comes out random. A contract also leads to a rare special item: five Covert skins give one such item, and the model and finish cannot be assigned. The pair you are after is taken from the market ready-made.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Shadow Daggers | Freehand in Field-Tested makes sense when:

• you want a pair with lilac frames and marker drawing on the blades;


• it matters that the wear is the lowest in price of the finish's five;


• your CS2 loadout is built on purple and lilac tones.