★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) on the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore is a narrow band where the gold of the blade still holds almost entire. A Covert rank knife with the ★ mark and the StatTrak™ kill counter.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore looks like in Minimal Wear

A green body and a yellow blade make a sharp contrast. The handles are a dense olive, the inserts on them amber with a marbled swirl, and a Celtic knot winds along the spine of the golden blade.

In Minimal Wear the gilding lies almost even, and marks show only on the edge and on the projections of the handles. Wear does not grow over time. For the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore this wear is a float band of 0.07 to 0.15. There is almost nothing to choose by float: the 0.07 to 0.15 band is short.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore came from

Valve presented Operation Riptide on September 22, 2021, and its case became the first source of the Lore finish. The second source is the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

What to check before buying

Choosing a particular ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore comes down to these points:

• float: the band takes 17% of the skin's scale, and a value near 0.07 is closer to Factory New;


• the StatTrak Swap Tool only swaps the readings of two items of the same type, and the Lore count itself is checked in the listing;


• name tag: the knife with the Lore finish has one, and an applied name is kept.

Phase and pattern

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore has no pattern spread: what one listing has, the rest have.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs 20.94 times as much, Field-Tested is cheaper by 1.46 times, Well-Worn by 1.54 and Battle-Scarred by 1.79. The StatTrak copy runs about a sixth above the normal knife.

Of the twenty-three StatTrak butterfly finishes in this wear, Lore costs more than thirteen and less than nine. Above it stand Crimson Web, Case Hardened and Blue Steel, below it Autotronic and Ultraviolet; the top of the row is Doppler Phase 1, Doppler Phase 2 and Gamma Doppler Emerald.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore

In CS2 the finish comes from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and wear is decided at drop. A StatTrak copy also comes through a craft: five Covert StatTrak skins of one type give a random rare special item from the collections of the skins you put in. Skins without a counter do not go into the input, and neither model nor finish is set.

StatTrak and the normal version

This page describes the StatTrak version. The normal Butterfly Knife | Lore is a separate product and costs less in this wear; go there if you do not need the counter.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Lore in Minimal Wear makes sense when:

• you want a knife with clean gilding, and Factory New at 20.94 times as much is too expensive;


• you want a kill counter on a knife with a golden blade;


• your CS2 loadout calls for olive handles with amber inserts.