★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box (Battle-Scarred)

These are the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box in Battle-Scarred (BS), and by price the finish is second only to Hedge Maze among Sport Gloves. Extraordinary rank, with the star. This wear gets the band 0.45 to 0.80, and the scale is cut off at the top by a ceiling of 0.80. In CS2 the gloves drop from the Glove Case and the Operation Hydra Case.

What the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box look like in Battle-Scarred

The palette is cold, violet-blue, with a metallic glint. On the back of the hand sits a dark insert, nearly black at the edges, with vertical raised bars, and around it a scaly embossing over a violet field. The palm side is lighter and more mottled in its shimmer, with light-blue streaks on the fingers. Turquoise-blue strokes run along the raised bars, and glossy patches lie at the base of the fingers.

Valve describes black-and-violet gloves with an understated pattern on the palms. In Battle-Scarred the violet lightens, and a gray base shows through on the knuckles and the tops of the raised bars. Wear is fixed at drop.

Where the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box came from

The Steam Workshop has no part in the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box: Valve made the artwork. The finish was released on November 28, 2016, and its number in the Valve catalog is 10037. The Glove Case was the first to carry it, and the Operation Hydra Case came later.

Phase and pattern

Copies differ, but the spread is small and falls on the palm side: the pattern index shifts how the texture is laid over the palm. This finish has no named rare patterns, and no premiums for them either. On the back of the hand every listing is the same, so float and wear remain the deciding factors.

What to check before buying

Picking a particular pair of ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box comes down to these points:

• float: within 0.45 to 0.80 the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box change visibly to the eye, so choose a listing by its number;


• the palm pattern: the texture overlay is shifted from copy to copy, so look at the listing itself;


• the state of the knuckles and raised bars: that is where the gray base shows through.

Gloves have no name tag, no stickers and no StatTrak.

What the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box cost in Battle-Scarred

This is the lowest wear of the finish, and the gap to the top one is enormous. Well-Worn costs 1.46 times as much, Field-Tested 1.67, Minimal Wear 2.6 and Factory New 15.5.

Among the nineteen Sport Gloves finishes with a price in this wear, Pandora's Box is second from the top. Only Hedge Maze is above it, by six percent. Superconductor is 2.4 times lower, Ultra Violent 3.2 and Nocts 4.5.

Getting the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box

From cases: the Glove Case and the Operation Hydra Case, so there is more than one case. The second route is a craft. Five Covert skins of one type, all normal or all StatTrak, yield a random item with the ★ mark from the collections of the skins put in. Model and finish cannot be chosen.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Sport Gloves | Pandora's Box in Battle-Scarred makes sense if:

• you need violet-blue gloves for a CS2 loadout and the higher wears of the finish are out of budget;


• you want one of the priciest finishes on the model at the lowest entry cost;


• scuffs on the knuckles and the raised bars do not bother you, because price matters more.