★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand (Field-Tested)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand in Field-Tested (FT) is a CS2 butterfly knife with white and silver scrawls on a purple blade. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The butterfly knife drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish's float runs from 0.00 to 0.48 across five wears. This wear of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand is assigned float 0.15 to 0.38.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is curved, as on every butterfly knife, and is covered in a dense pattern of white and silver lines over purple paint. The handles are black, with a purple insert along each half, and the latch and pivot are purple as well. The edge is light and carries no lettering. Valve describes the finish as a black-and-purple base with a metallic-marker drawing on top.

On the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand, the float number matters more than the wear label, because the 0.15 to 0.38 band holds very different looks. The wear value is set at the moment of drop and never grows afterward.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand came from

The butterfly knife as a model arrived in the game in 2014, and this finish came later, with the Operation Riptide Case. Valve launched the operation itself on September 22, 2021. Then, on January 21, 2022, in the notes for the Dreams & Nightmares Case, Valve named the Riptide knives rare special items of the new case too.

What to check before buying

Before paying for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand, check:

• float: at 0.15 the white painting is cleaner, and at 0.38 there is more scuffing;


• the applied name: the butterfly knife takes a name tag, and the inscription stays on the item after purchase;


• the wear in the listing name: Factory New (FN) and Minimal Wear (MW) are listed as separate products.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.18 times as much, and Minimal Wear 1.10 times. Well-Worn is level, while Battle-Scarred sits 1.06 times lower.

Of the eighteen butterfly finishes in this wear, eight are cheaper and nine are pricier. Lore is 10 percent higher, Black Laminate 9 and Stained 1, while Ultraviolet is 1 lower and Night 9. The cheapest are Forest DDPAT, Boreal Forest and Safari Mesh. The most expensive are Autotronic, Blue Steel and Slaughter.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand

This butterfly knife drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear is random at the moment a case is opened. A contract on five Covert skins from one collection yields one rare special item, with no choice of model or finish. The Freehand butterfly itself is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand in Field-Tested is worth it for reasons like these:

• you want a butterfly knife with a purple and white pattern on the blade, and black handles as a quiet background;


• your CS2 loadout is put together in purple and black tones;


• you do not need to pay extra over Factory New, which costs 1.18 times as much, since the purple pattern on the blade is there in Field-Tested too.