★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand (Minimal Wear)

This is the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand in Minimal Wear (MW), with a float from 0.07 to 0.15, or 17% of the short scale of 0.00 to 0.48. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The knife drops in CS2 from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. In price this wear is level with Factory New.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand looks like in Minimal Wear

The blade is drawn by hand in white and gray marks on a purple ground, like a notebook covered in scribbles. The handles are black with purple inserts along their length, and the pivots are steel. Purple and black set the color of the whole knife, and the white marks give the blade its contrast.

Floats here run from 0.07 to 0.15. The scale gives the wear only that narrow stretch, which is why copies look alike. Wear is written into the item at the drop and stays as it is.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand came from

Operation Riptide was announced by Valve on September 22, 2021, and the case holding this finish was released with it.

What to check before buying

A lot of this knife is chosen by a few signs:

• Float: any value between 0.07 and 0.15 gives almost the same knife.


• Name tag: a name can be applied, and there are no stickers.


• Price of neighboring wears: Factory New is almost the same, while Battle-Scarred is priced 1.10 times lower.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New is level with this wear, with a gap under three percent. Below come Field-Tested (1.10 times cheaper), Well-Worn (1.15 times) and Battle-Scarred (1.10 times).

Among Covert butterfly knives in Minimal Wear, seven finishes are cheaper than Freehand and twenty are pricier. Black Laminate and Night sit above it, and Patina, Urban Masked and Bright Water a little below. Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest are the cheapest finishes in the row. The top is Doppler Phase 4, Doppler Sapphire and Doppler Ruby.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand

The Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case both give this butterfly knife. The alternative is a contract of five Covert skins of one type, which has a random result and no choice of model.

Is there a StatTrak version

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand also comes with StatTrak in the game.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a sensible buy for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Freehand if:

• You want a busy purple butterfly knife, and Factory New costs almost the same, so you can pick the float yourself.


• The knife in your CS2 loadout should stand out by its drawing rather than the color of steel.


• You want a Covert butterfly knife from the lower part of the row by price.