★ Butterfly Knife | Lore (Battle-Scarred)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore in Battle-Scarred (BS) is the cheapest wear of this finish, and the design still reads at a glance: a golden blade and olive handles. Every other wear costs more. Well-Worn is 8 percent higher, Field-Tested 18 percent, Minimal Wear 1.7 times and Factory New 3.6 times. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. In CS2 this is the same golden butterfly as in the upper wears, only with the longest float band.

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

The Lore blade is golden-yellow, crossed by a fine Celtic ornament of interlaced knots over the whole flat. The handle is olive green, with round cutouts and amber-colored inserts that carry dark swirls; the latch hook and the pin at the butt are gold. The gold is paint, not metal, and the whole knife holds the color, not just the blade.

On this wear the float band runs from 0.45 to 1.00, more than half of the finish's entire scale. Wear is fixed at drop, so a listing at 0.46 looks cleaner than one at 0.99, even though both carry the same name.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore came from

Valve introduced Operation Riptide on September 22, 2021, and Lore arrived in that operation's case. The same finish later entered the Dreams & Nightmares Case, which gives the knife two cases rather than one.

What to check before buying

When you pick a listing of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore, these points count:

• float: on this wear the band is long, 0.45 to 1.00, so comparing several listings pays off;


• name tag: check the name shown in the listing;


• version: the StatTrak listing is its own product, sold apart.

Phase and pattern

There is no point searching for a particular pattern index: the artwork never changes. The finish has no phases like Doppler's, so only wear and version set the price.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore costs in Battle-Scarred

Of the eighteen Covert butterfly finishes priced in this wear, Lore lands in the middle: eight finishes cost less, nine cost more. The nearest ones above are Stained by 6 percent and Crimson Web by 5; Rust Coat is almost level. Night and Bright Water are cheaper. The bottom of the list is Forest DDPAT, Safari Mesh and Scorched, and the top is Case Hardened, Blue Steel and Damascus Steel.

Between the wears, prices spread like this:

• Factory New costs 3.61 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs 1.70 times as much;


• Field-Tested costs 1.18 times as much;


• Well-Worn costs 1.08 times as much.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore

Two cases hold this knife, the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear you get is down to luck. The workaround is a craft: you put in five Covert skins of one type (normal and StatTrak are not mixed), and the game hands back a random rare special item. You cannot choose the model or the finish.

Is there a StatTrak version

This finish also comes with StatTrak in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore here, in Battle-Scarred, makes sense on these terms:

• you want a golden knife with the Lore ornament at the lowest price among its five wears;


• color and ornament matter for the loadout, and marks of wear come second;


• price beats cleanliness: all four upper wears of this knife cost more.