★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald (Minimal Wear)

★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald in Minimal Wear (MW): signs of wear appear on the blade edge and on the ridges of the handles. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The kill counter on the blade is what sets this item apart from the normal knife in CS2.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald looks like in Minimal Wear

Green lacquer lies over the whole blade and thickens toward the heel, with light turquoise patches across the face. The dark green swirls are separated sharply, with no soft transitions. The black handles each carry a gray-blue stripe along the half, from the pivot to the tip. The latch is green, and the pivot screws and lock are open metal.

Light metal on the dark lacquer shows at once, so the first touched spots are looked for on the edge and on the ridges. The 0.07 to 0.08 band of this knife is narrow, and copies are nearly indistinguishable. The finish tops out at 0.08, so Minimal Wear takes only a short tail of the scale.

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

Gamma Doppler has no outside artist: Valve made the finish, and no Steam Workshop submission can be found. The Valve catalog lists it as number 568. The Operation Riptide Case brought Gamma Doppler to the butterfly knife; Valve published the post about it on September 22, 2021, five years after the knives from the Gamma cases. Later, on January 21, 2022, the same gamma knives went into the Dreams & Nightmares Case as rare items.

Phase and pattern

In the item name the phase stands next to the finish, and you choose Emerald right on the page. Gamma Doppler has five phases, one through four plus Emerald, and only Emerald counts as a gem. Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl do not exist on this finish; they stayed with Doppler.

The balance of green, turquoise and black on the blade comes from the pattern index. A premium for a lucky index inside the gem cannot be confirmed, so in a listing you check the float, the applied name and the kill count on the blade.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald, check the following:

• the kill counter reading: every copy has its own;


• the phase in the name: Emerald has its own page, and the four ordinary phases have theirs;


• the applied name: someone else's name tag comes with the knife;


• the float: wear in this grade lies between 0.07 and 0.08.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New on this knife is cheaper by about a seventh: the cleaner wear costs less than the worn one here.

Against the normal version, Minimal Wear carries a premium of about a tenth. The kill counter is paid for here, unlike in Factory New, where the two versions cost about the same.

In the StatTrak™ line of the model's Covert finishes, Emerald is first by price. Butterfly Knife | Fade is cheaper by about two and a quarter times. Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 is cheaper by almost three, and Butterfly Knife | Boreal Forest by roughly fourteen.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald

The Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case hand this knife over as a special item. The phase in both comes out at random, and so does the counter. A craft from five Covert skins of one collection works too, but all five inputs must carry a counter. The game does not let you mix normal and StatTrak™ skins.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is one difference from the normal knife here: the kill count on the blade. Without it, buy the normal Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald, which has its own page and its own price. Knives never come as Souvenir: Souvenir packages hold only weapons.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald makes sense for these jobs:

• you want a green blade with a counter, and the first marks on the edge do not get in the way;


• the knife will go into play in CS2, not into a display;


• a listing with the right pattern index turned up in this very wear.