★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald (Minimal Wear)

This is the ★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald in Minimal Wear (MW), a narrow slice at the edge of the scale: the finish's float ends at 0.08. A Covert rank CS2 Karambit with the ★ mark and a kill counter, it comes from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case. The wear band of the ★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald in this wear is 0.07 to 0.08.

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

The blade is a bright emerald green, thinned with turquoise and white toward the tip and dense and dark at the heel. The finger ring is green too, and the handle is gray. The notch on the spine reads clearly.

Minimal Wear is light wear: the lacquer goes first from the inner curve of the edge and from the ring.

Phase and pattern

Emerald exists only on Gamma Doppler. The phase is part of the product name, so you choose it in the listing itself, and the pattern index comes with the listing. The sources disagree: CS.MONEY does not recognize rare variations on Emerald, while Pricempire ranks "Max Emerald" first, a blade with no dark lines, at indexes 610 and 425.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald came from

Valve produced the finish; the Steam Workshop was not involved. According to csgoskins it appeared on June 15, 2016, and in the Valve catalog it is number 568. In Valve's words the Karambit is a blade shaped like a tiger's claw, from silat, a Southeast Asian martial discipline.

What to check before buying

Before taking a ★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald, look at these points:

• the counter reading: the number is in the listing description and passes to the buyer as it is, and it cannot be reset;


• swapping counters: the official StatTrak Swap Tool exchanges the readings of two items of the same type, and each leaves with the other's number;


• the pattern index: it comes with the listing, so check the listing image separately;


• the float: the 0.07 to 0.08 band takes up a hundredth of the scale, and there is almost nothing in the number to tell listings apart;


• name tag: allowed on Gamma Doppler Emerald, but the knife takes no stickers.

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

Factory New is cheaper by a factor of 1.32: it occupies 0.00 to 0.07, while Minimal Wear gets only the 0.07 to 0.08 segment. In this wear the StatTrak version costs 1.2 times the normal one.

Among the Covert StatTrak Karambit finishes in Minimal Wear, Emerald is first of 23, with the other 22 cheaper. The nearest, Gamma Doppler Phase 4, is 2.8 times cheaper; Doppler Phase 3 and Doppler Phase 1 are 5.5 times cheaper, Case Hardened more than seven times, Crimson Web eight.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald

The finish comes from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case, together with the counter. The phase, the float and the counter reading are not chosen when you open a case.

The other route is a craft: five Covert skins of one type go in. For the result to come out StatTrak, every one of the five inputs must be StatTrak: the game does not let normal and StatTrak skins mix. The result is random, and neither model nor finish can be chosen.

StatTrak and the normal version

Emerald also exists in a normal version without a counter, and in this wear that listing costs less. Knives have no Souvenir version.

Who this wear suits

The ★ StatTrak™ Karambit | Gamma Doppler Emerald in Minimal Wear makes sense when:

• you want the top of the Gamma Doppler line with a kill counter;


• in your CS2 loadout the emerald blade sets the tone, and the Karambit's gray handle does not get in its way;


• the counter reading in the listing suits you, and you plan to build it up yourself;


• you do not need Factory New, which takes the segment below 0.07.