★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade (Field-Tested)

The ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade in Field-Tested (FT) are a dark blue pair that shifts from blue to purple at the wrist. A pink-red stripe crosses the knuckles. Extraordinary rank, with the star. The Broken Fang glove set drops from three cases: the Operation Broken Fang Case, the Snakebite Case and the Recoil Case. The finish's float runs from 0.06 to 0.80, and this wear takes up 0.23 of that 0.74.

What the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade look like in Field-Tested

The back of the hand is dark blue with a fine vertical rib. A glossy insert at the wrist moves from blue to violet and on to purple. A pink-red stripe crosses the knuckles, and the finger pads shift from yellow to blue. On the second glove, red panels lie across a dark blue field and the fingertip pads are gray-black. Valve's description mentions only the material: durable, breathable, stylish.

Wear reads as scuffed fabric and leather at the creases, not as scratches along an edge. For the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade this wear covers floats from 0.15 to 0.38. The wear level is set at the moment of the drop.

Where the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade came from

These gloves belong to the Broken Fang set. The description of the operation, dated December 3, 2020, lists a new set of gloves among the rewards. Valve released the Snakebite Case on May 4, 2021, and wrote that it holds the Broken Fang gloves as rare special items. The note for the Recoil Case, from July 4, 2022, uses the same words.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade, check a few points:

• this wear is a long stretch for the finish, 0.15 to 0.38, so comparing several listings is worth the time;


• the blue-purple insert at the wrist: the state of the gloss shows in the listing screenshot;


• the wear in the listing title: Factory New costs almost twelve times as much, Minimal Wear two and a half times.

What the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade cost in Field-Tested

Nineteen Specialist Gloves finishes have a price in this wear, and Marble Fade ranks thirteenth from the top: twelve cost more, six cost less. Fade is almost a quarter higher, Tiger Strike a few percent. Crimson Web is cheaper by about a tenth, Field Agent by a seventh. Crimson Kimono, Emerald Web and Foundation head the list.

Across the wears, prices step as follows:

• Factory New costs 11.9 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 2.5 times as much;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by a factor of 1.11;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by a factor of 1.3.

Getting the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade

The finish has three cases: Operation Broken Fang, Snakebite and Recoil. In each one the gloves are a rare special item, and the wear comes out random. The alternative is a trade-up contract of five Covert skins from one collection, which returns a single rare special item with no say over model or finish. For one particular Field-Tested pair, go to a listing that is already up.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Specialist Gloves | Marble Fade in Field-Tested makes sense for these reasons:

• you want a dark blue pair with bright accents for a CS2 loadout;


• price matters: skipping Factory New removes a surcharge of almost twelve times;


• you want room to choose by float, and the 0.15 to 0.38 stretch lets you pick from screenshots.