★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 (Factory New)

The ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 (Factory New) are a pair of CS2 knives with emerald-turquoise frames. The blades shift from turquoise to blue-violet. The pair is Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and it drops from two cases: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The float scale stops at 0.08, so there are two wears. Factory New (FN) takes 0.00 to 0.07, and Minimal Wear (MW) takes the remainder.

What the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 look like in Factory New

The frame handles are bright green with a turquoise sheen, and they have cutouts for the fingers. The blade is turquoise at the base, lightens toward the middle almost to white, and heads into light blue and blue-violet at the point, with dark marbled swirls. Valve writes about black and silver metallic paints on a marble base under a clear lacquer.

In Factory New the lacquer on the points and the frames is intact. Wear is fixed at the drop, and the pair stays just as it was opened.

Where the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 came from

Valve itself created the Gamma Doppler finish. In the catalog it carries number 569, and it came out on June 15, 2016. It reached the Shadow Daggers only in the fall of 2021, in the Operation Riptide Case.

The Dreams & Nightmares Case came out on January 21, 2022. Valve put the Gamma knives from the Riptide case into it as rare special items.

Phase and pattern

The phase is part of the item name: you choose it on the listing page instead of pulling it from a case. Gamma Doppler has five variants, Phases 1 to 4 and Emerald. Emerald is the only gem of this finish, while Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl exist only on Doppler.

Copies of Phase 1 still differ: the pattern index shifts turquoise, light blue and lilac along the blade. How the colors fell on a particular pair shows in the listing image, while the name says nothing about it.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1, check the following:

• the phase in the listing name: Phase 1 and Emerald are separate items, each with its own price;


• an applied name: a name tag is possible on Shadow Daggers, but they have no stickers;


• the edition: a StatTrak pair is a separate item.

In this wear the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 cover a short stretch, 0.00 to 0.07, so there is no point chasing the number.

What the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 cost in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs 1.5 times as much. Its band, 0.07 to 0.08, takes an eighth of the scale, and Factory New covers the other 88 percent.

The regular Gamma Doppler phases sit close together: Phases 2, 3 and 4 are cheaper than Phase 1 by six, eight and ten percent. Emerald costs almost twice as much. On the same model in Doppler, Sapphire is 2.2 times Phase 1, Ruby 3.7 times and Black Pearl 5.8 times.

Among Shadow Daggers finishes in Factory New, Phase 1 stands next to Slaughter and Lore, which are higher by three and five percent. Autotronic is 15 percent cheaper, Marble Fade 17, Tiger Tooth a third, Damascus Steel 38 and Black Laminate two fifths. Freehand costs almost half as much, and Bright Water 2.3 times less.

Getting the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1

Shadow Daggers with Gamma Doppler drop from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the phase is random at the drop. In a trade-up contract, five Covert skins from one collection give one rare special item, but you do not choose its model or phase. Phase 1 specifically comes as a ready-made listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Shadow Daggers | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 in Factory New makes sense under these conditions:

• you want a turquoise-and-blue pair of Gamma Doppler daggers without paying extra for Emerald;


• you want untouched lacquer and points, with a tight float band of 0.00 to 0.07;


• your CS2 loadout is built on a cool palette, where the emerald frames give a bright accent.