★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald (Factory New)

★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald in Factory New (FN): the lacquer is intact on the blade edge and on the ridges of the handles. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. What sets it apart from the normal version is the kill counter, and the reading is different on every listing. The finish's scale stops at 0.08, so the knife comes in only two wears.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald looks like in Factory New

The blade is sunk entirely in dense green, thicker at the heel, with light turquoise patches across the face. The dark green swirls break off sharply, with no soft transitions. The handles stay black, and a gray-blue stripe runs along each half from the pivot to the tip. The latch is green; the pivot screws and the lock are bare metal.

On a butterfly knife the cutting edge scuffs first, then the raised handle ridges, and light metal on the dark lacquer shows at once. In Factory New both spots are still covered by paint. In this wear the knife sits in a narrow band, 0.00 to 0.07, and copies hardly differ from one another.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald came from

Valve drew the finish itself, no Steam Workshop submission is recorded for Gamma Doppler, and its number in the Valve catalog is 568. It reached the butterfly knife later than the knives from the Gamma cases, with the Operation Riptide Case. Valve published the post "Introducing Operation Riptide" on September 22, 2021. In January 2022 the same gamma knives were also put into the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

Phase and pattern

The phase is right in the item name, so you pick Emerald on the page instead of pulling it from a case. It is the only gem of Gamma Doppler: Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl belong to Doppler and do not appear here. In the game data, Emerald sits on ten knives and one gun, the Glock-18.

The pattern index shifts the balance of green, turquoise and black on the blade. There is no confirmed data on a premium for a lucky index, so when choosing a listing, go by the float and the counter reading.

What to check before buying

These are the things that change from one ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald listing to the next:

• the kill counter reading: the number passes to the new owner with the knife;


• the applied name: a name tag stays on the knife even after resale;


• the float: the wear spans 0.00 to 0.07.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald costs in Factory New

In this wear the kill counter adds nothing to the price: the StatTrak™ version costs almost the same as the normal one. For a knife at this rank that is unusual, and there is no surcharge for the text on the blade.

Minimal Wear on this knife costs about a seventh more, so the top wear is not the dearest here. In a CS2 match you cannot tell the two wears apart, and the choice comes down to price.

In the StatTrak™ line of Covert butterfly knife finishes, Emerald is first by price. Butterfly Knife | Doppler Sapphire trails by a few percent, Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 2 sits noticeably lower, and Butterfly Knife | Bright Water is about ten times cheaper.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald

The Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case are the two sources of the finish. Both hand the knife over as a special item with a random phase. The other route is a craft from five Covert skins of one collection; the result carries a counter only if all five inputs had one.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The kill counter is the whole difference between this item and the normal one. If you do not need to count kills, go to the page of the normal Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald, which has its own address and its own price. CS2 has no Souvenir knives at all.

Who this wear suits

Factory New on the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald is justified when:

• you want a counter on a knife that already sits at the top of its rank;


• the green blade is going into a black-and-green CS2 set;


• there is no surcharge over the normal version in this wear, and the float is the better of the two possible.