★ Kukri Knife

The ★ Kukri Knife is the kukri in CS2 without a skin: the blade stays as the game hands it out, and the listing marks it as unpainted. The knife has Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and it has no wear, float or pattern, so any two copies are identical.

What the ★ Kukri Knife looks like

The blade is wide and leaf-shaped, with a pronounced curve: the spine runs in an arc and the point faces down. The steel is dark, nearly black, in two tones. A deep, darker fuller runs down the center, and a narrow light edge runs along the cutting side. A notch is cut at the base of the blade.

The handle is dark gray, with deep finger grooves and cross ribbing. It widens toward the butt, and there is a small hole in the heel. The whole knife is dark, and only the edge lightens.

How the plain ★ Kukri Knife differs from a skinned one

On a skinned kukri the color of the blade changes entirely, while the unpainted one stays dark. Several things follow from that:

• there is no wear, so the listing carries neither a wear name nor a float;


• there are no patterns or phases, and copies do not differ from each other;


• a name tag is available, and a name applied to the knife stays with it;


• stickers cannot be attached to knives.

The only choice left is between the regular version and the one with a counter.

What the ★ Kukri Knife costs

By its starting “from” price, the unpainted knife sits above the middle of the Kukri Knife row: nine skins are cheaper and three are pricier. Below it are Kukri Knife | Crimson Web (a seventh cheaper), Kukri Knife | Blue Steel (a sixth cheaper) and Kukri Knife | Stained (a third cheaper).

Above it are Kukri Knife | Case Hardened (a few percent pricier) and Kukri Knife | Slaughter (about two fifths pricier). Kukri Knife | Fade is the most expensive finish on the model, at twice the price of the plain knife.

Is there a StatTrak version

Yes. StatTrak™ Kukri Knife is sold as a separate item, and the counter stays with the knife. The version with a counter costs about a seventh more than the regular one.

Getting the ★ Kukri Knife

The Kukri Knife drops as a rare special item from two cases, the Kilowatt Case and the Gallery Case. The bare steel sits there among the other rare special items, so opening a case hands it over by chance.

Five Covert skins put into a trade-up contract can also return this knife, but the game picks the model and the finish. A ready plain knife can also be bought on LIS-SKINS.

Who it suits

The plain ★ Kukri Knife suits you if:

• you want a dark knife without artwork that goes with any loadout;


• you like the kukri shape, and the prices of its skins climb toward Fade, which costs twice as much;


• you need a listing with no float and no phases.