★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze (Factory New)

Factory New (FN) is the top of the entire rank for the ★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze: no Sport Gloves finish in CS2 costs more. The rank is Extraordinary, and the name carries the ★. Drops come from the Glove Case and from the Operation Hydra Case. Its wear scale opens at 0.06, so Factory New here means the limit of cleanliness, not a perfect null.

What the ★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze look like in Factory New

The base is an acid lime, close to neon. A large graphite-gray panel with vertical ribs covers the back of the hand from wrist to knuckles, and the lime frames it and runs onto the fingers. Palm and fingers are yellow-green with gray-white smears. Fine scale embossing covers the fabric, thin lime stitching follows the seams, and a small lime triangle sits on the cuff. Despite the name, no maze is drawn on them anywhere.

In Factory New the lime holds full tone: knuckles and fingertips untouched, the edges of the gray panel clean. Those lighten first further down the scale, as the acid color burns out toward pale yellow. On a field this bright the change shows at once, so the grade is readable even mid-run in CS2.

Where the ★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze came from

Valve drew the finish in house, with no Steam Workshop submission behind it. The company's catalog lists it at number 10038. The pair arrived on November 28, 2016 with the Glove Case Skins update, which brought gloves into CS:GO. A second source followed that summer: Valve announced Operation Hydra on June 1, 2017, and that operation's case gives up the finish too.

Phase and pattern

Copies are not alike, as the pattern guide notes. The spread is small and hidden: the pattern index shifts how the texture lands on the palm side. No named rare patterns exist for this finish and no premium for a lucky index, so the pattern number plays no part in picking a listing.

What to check before buying

From listing to listing, this moves:

• the float inside 0.06–0.07, since nothing cleaner than 0.06 exists;


• the texture on the palm, which the pattern index alone governs and the price ignores;


• the wear in the title: Minimal Wear (MW) costs several times less and barely differs in a preview.

What the ★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze cost in Factory New

Nothing visible changes between 0.06 and 0.07, so inside the grade only price is left to compare.

The step down is steep. Minimal Wear is five times cheaper and Field-Tested about nine times. Well-Worn (WW) sells below the cleaner Field-Tested, and Battle-Scarred (BS) sits more than sixteen times under the top grade.

Of the nineteen Sport Gloves finishes priced in this grade, this is the most expensive. Pandora's Box, the nearest neighbor, is about a third cheaper and Superconductor trails by almost four times. Bronze Morph, at the cheap end of the rank, sits tens of times lower.

Getting the ★ Sport Gloves | Hedge Maze

Out of cases the pair falls as the rare ★ item, from the Glove Case and the Operation Hydra Case. The other road is a trade-up contract: five Covert skins of one collection return a single rare special item, and which one is not known beforehand.

Who this wear suits

Factory New pays off when:

• you want the top of the rank with no compromise on looks;


• the loadout is built around acid green and the gloves set its main color;


• clean knuckles and fingertips matter, since on a lime field they give way first.