★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred (BS) is the widest of the five wears of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate: it takes 55% of the finish's scale. This is a Covert butterfly knife, with the ★ mark, a dark blade and black handles with light laminate inserts. In CS2 it comes from two cases, the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. In this wear the knife is given floats from 0.45 to 1.00.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate looks like in Battle-Scarred

The blade is dark gray with a mottled steel texture, and Valve's description says it was stonewashed. The handles are black with round cutouts, and each holds a light panel with beige-gray swirls that resemble wood or camouflage. The pivot and the latch are dark, so those inserts give the knife its only contrast.

In Battle-Scarred, wear covers a noticeable part of the surface. On the dark steel it reads along the blade edge and on the ridges of the handles. Wear is fixed at the drop, and the knife does not change after you buy it. The 0.45 to 1.00 stretch is a long one, and copies at its far ends are clearly different.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate came from

The Operation Riptide Case carries the name of its operation, which kicked off on September 22, 2021. The second door for this finish is the Dreams & Nightmares Case, so the butterfly knife has two source cases.

Phase and pattern

There is no choosing by artwork on this knife. The finish has no phases or gems, so listings differ only by float and by how the edge looks.

What to check before buying

What matters when buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate:

• float: the closer to 0.45, the cleaner the blade, and the closer to 1.00, the more scratched, so two Battle-Scarred copies can look quite different;
• applied name: a name tag on a butterfly knife is allowed and passes to the buyer along with the knife, while the knife has no sticker slots;
• StatTrak: a butterfly knife with a kill counter counts as a separate item.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate costs in Battle-Scarred

Factory New runs 1.49 times higher, Minimal Wear 1.18 times and Field-Tested 1.05 times. Well-Worn is priced almost level with Battle-Scarred.

Of the eighteen Covert butterfly knives in Battle-Scarred, Black Laminate prices above the middle: twelve finishes cost less and five cost more. Right beside it, Freehand is slightly pricier, while Stained and Crimson Web are slightly cheaper, and Rust Coat and Lore sit lower. The bottom of the row holds Forest DDPAT, Safari Mesh and Scorched, and the top holds Case Hardened, Blue Steel and Damascus Steel.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate

The knife drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case; the wear that comes out is random.

A craft is the other way in. Five Covert skins of one type (all regular or all StatTrak, no mixing) turn into a random rare special item from the collections of the skins put in. Model and finish cannot be picked, so the butterfly knife you want is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

The game has a StatTrak variant of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate.

Who this wear suits

Battle-Scarred is a sensible buy for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in these cases:

• you want this butterfly knife specifically, and Factory New at 1.49 times the price is a difference that outweighs a clean blade;
• a dark knife with light inserts fits your loadout, and wear along the edge does not bother you;
• you want a knife without a phase lottery: every copy has the same pattern.