★ Butterfly Knife | Lore (Field-Tested)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore in Field-Tested (FT) has a golden blade with a knotwork ornament set against olive handles. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. There are two sources: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The float scale is full, from 0.00 to 1.00, so the finish exists in all five wears. Field-Tested is assigned the 0.15 to 0.38 band.

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

In CS2 the blade is yellow-gold, paler toward the edge. A braided strip of knots runs along the upper half, and Valve calls the design knotwork. The handles are dark olive, each with an ocher marble insert. The latch is golden.

At Field-Tested the wear is already noticeable, and it settles first on the tip of the blade and the raised ribs of the handles. Wear is locked in at the drop: a knife at 0.15 and a knife at 0.38 stay just as they fell.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore came from

The finish appeared in September 2021 with Operation Riptide. Valve announced the launch in the update "Introducing Operation Riptide." Besides that operation's case, the finish is also in the Dreams & Nightmares Case. By then the butterfly itself had been in the game for seven years.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore, look at the following:

• Float: this wear has a long 0.15 to 0.38 band, so comparing several lots is worthwhile.


• Pattern: every copy of the knife carries the same design, and copies are told apart only by wear.


• Name tag: the knife has no sticker slots, but a name can be applied.


• Version: the StatTrak edition is listed as a separate product.

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

The wears of the Lore are spread noticeably apart. Factory New costs almost three times as much as Field-Tested, and Minimal Wear 1.4 times. Well-Worn is an eighth cheaper, Battle-Scarred a fifth.

Among butterfly finishes in Field-Tested, the Lore stands level with Black Laminate and slightly below Crimson Web and Damascus Steel. Stained and Freehand are about ten percent cheaper. Slaughter is the highest in this wear.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore

This butterfly drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear comes at random. A contract offers another path: five Covert skins from one collection turn into a single rare special item, with neither finish nor wear up to you. To get the Lore in the wear you want, buy a ready-made lot.

Is there a StatTrak version

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

Who this wear suits

Buying the Butterfly Knife | Lore here, in Field-Tested, is reasonable in these situations:

• You want a golden butterfly with an ornament, and Factory New costs almost three times as much.


• Your CS2 loadout is built in warm tones, and the olive and ocher of the handles fit it.


• You want to compare lots by float: the finish has one design, so the only difference is wear.