★ Butterfly Knife | Lore (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore in Minimal Wear (MW) pairs a golden blade and knotwork ornament with green handles that carry amber inserts. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. In CS2 this butterfly falls out of the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. The finish's float runs from 0.00 to 1.00 across five wears, and Minimal Wear occupies 8% of that scale.

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

The blade is flooded with yellow-orange lacquer, and fine knotwork runs near its upper part. The handles are dark olive with lightening holes, and an amber marble insert sits in the middle of each. The latch and the hook by the heel are gold.

Minimal Wear shows the first marks, yet the lacquer on the blade is mostly whole. Scratches land first on the tip and the raised ribs of the handles. The wear is set at the drop and stays as it was.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore came from

The Operation Riptide Case came out in September 2021, when Valve launched the operation of the same name. The finish's second source is the Dreams & Nightmares Case, which Valve released on January 21, 2022.

What to check before buying

Before taking the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore, go through these points:

• Float: there is hardly anything to choose by, because the 0.07 to 0.15 band is short.


• Applied name: the butterfly takes a name tag, and there are no stickers.


• Design: it is identical on every lot, so copies differ only in wear.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New (FN) costs a little over twice as much. Field-Tested (FT) is almost one and a half times cheaper, Well-Worn (WW) almost 40% cheaper, and Battle-Scarred (BS) almost half.

Among Covert butterfly finishes, the Lore sits mid-row. Case Hardened is level with it and Autotronic is higher, while Blue Steel, Ultraviolet and Damascus Steel are lower. Doppler Sapphire, Gamma Doppler Emerald and Doppler Ruby hold the top of the row, and Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest hold the bottom.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Lore

The Lore falls from the Operation Riptide and Dreams & Nightmares Cases, and the wear comes at random. The other route is a contract on five Covert skins from one collection: the result is a rare special item whose model and finish are not assigned.

Is there a StatTrak version

The game has a StatTrak version of the Butterfly Knife | Lore.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Butterfly Knife | Lore in Minimal Wear is worth it for these reasons:

• The price is half that of Factory New, while the lacquer on the blade is still mostly whole.


• The golden blade and green handles slot into a CS2 loadout with no tie to a phase or a pattern.


• Across the 0.07 to 0.15 band the lots barely differ, so the choice can be made on price.