★ Flip Knife

The ★ Flip Knife is the Flip Knife with no skin in CS2: there is no finish on the blade, and the lot description marks it as not painted. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It has no wear and no float, no pattern either, and every copy is identical.

What the ★ Flip Knife looks like

The blade is curved, with a wide belly. A serrated stretch runs along the base of the edge, and above it the steel is light and smooth. Near the pivot a round black mark is stamped on the flat of the blade.

The handle is gray-olive, with slanted ridges for the fingers and a lanyard slot near the top. The knife folds, and the blade retracts into the handle. Its color comes from the steel and that gray-green material.

How the plain ★ Flip Knife differs from a skinned one

A Flip Knife with a skin is judged by its wear and float. The unpainted one is free of both:

• there is no wear grade, so no wear and no float either;


• there is no phase or pattern, so two copies cannot be told apart;


• a name tag can be applied, and the text moves with the knife to the new owner;


• knives have no sticker slots.

That leaves one choice: the regular version or the StatTrak version.

What the ★ Flip Knife costs

Counted by the starting "from" price, the unpainted knife sits almost in the middle of the Flip Knife skins: eighteen cost less and sixteen cost more. Closest below are Flip Knife | Crimson Web (a difference of about one percent), Flip Knife | Autotronic (a few percent cheaper) and Flip Knife | Lore (a ninth cheaper).

Above it come Flip Knife | Tiger Tooth (a sixth more) and Flip Knife | Marble Fade (two fifths more). Flip Knife | Slaughter costs more than one and a half times as much. At the top of the range, Flip Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald costs nearly eight times as much as the unpainted knife. Flip Knife | Doppler Ruby costs more than eight times as much, and Flip Knife | Doppler Black Pearl nearly nine times.

Is there a StatTrak version

Yes. The ★ StatTrak™ Flip Knife is listed as a separate item, and its counter does not reset. It costs almost the same as the regular version, a difference of about one percent.

Getting the ★ Flip Knife

The Flip Knife drops as a rare special item from eleven cases:

• CS:GO Weapon Case;


• eSports 2013 Case;


• Operation Bravo Case;


• CS:GO Weapon Case 2;


• eSports 2013 Winter Case;


• Winter Offensive Weapon Case;


• CS:GO Weapon Case 3;


• Operation Phoenix Weapon Case;


• eSports 2014 Summer Case;


• Operation Vanguard Weapon Case;


• Revolver Case.

Bare steel sits in the rare special item pool alongside the skins, so it drops together with them, and you cannot pick it when opening a case. A trade-up contract also yields a Flip Knife: five Covert skins return a random rare special item. The simpler route to the lot you want is to buy it ready-made on LIS-SKINS.

Who it suits

The ★ Flip Knife without a skin suits you if:

• you want the Flip Knife shape without paying extra for a skin;


• you would rather not check float and pattern;


• Flip Knife | Tiger Tooth and Flip Knife | Marble Fade cost noticeably more, and you like the shape just as much.