★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest (Field-Tested)

★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest in Field-Tested (FT): a CS2 folding knife with a camouflage blade and a green insert on the handle. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. Two cases hold it: the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case. The finish's float lies within 0.06 to 0.80, and all five wears exist. This wear of the ★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest sits between 0.15 and 0.38.

What the ★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is covered in forest camouflage: patches of olive, pale lime, brown and sand, with light steel showing at the edge. The handle is beige-sand, with a mint-green rubber insert at the base and a round green button on the scale. Valve's text says the camouflage is hydrographic film.

In Field-Tested, paint comes off first from the point and from the ridges of the scales. On the light parts of the handle this shows better than on the mottled blade. Wear is fixed at the drop, and the copy stays as it fell. Inside the 0.15 to 0.38 band you can choose, and the copies near 0.15 are cleaner.

Where the ★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest came from

The model itself appeared on November 19, 2019, with Operation Shattered Web. In Valve's note, four new knives, the Nomad among them, are named as the reward of the Shattered Web Case. This finish's second case is the Fracture Case.

What to check before buying

What counts when picking a listing of this Nomad:

• float: the closer to 0.15, the fewer scuffs on the handle and the point;


• artwork: it is the same on every copy, so there is no special colorway to look for;


• applied name: the Nomad takes a name tag, and the inscription is kept after purchase.

What the ★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 2.08 times as much, Minimal Wear 1.24 times, and Well-Worn 1.12 times. Battle-Scarred is level.

Among the thirteen Nomad finishes in this wear, only Safari Mesh and Forest DDPAT are cheaper. Scorched, Night Stripe and Urban Masked cost more, and the upper part of the row holds Crimson Web, Case Hardened and Slaughter, the last costing three times as much.

Getting the ★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest

These knives drop from two cases, the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case, and the wear is decided when the case is opened. The other route is a contract: five Covert skins from one collection give one rare special item, in which neither model nor finish is chosen. A specific wear of this finish is bought as a listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak™ version of the ★ Nomad Knife | Boreal Forest exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested is a reasonable pick for this Nomad in these cases:

• you want a camouflage knife in a green and beige palette, and Factory New costs 2.08 times as much;


• your CS2 loadout is built in greens and sands, and the mint insert on the handle picks up the color;


• price matters: the finish lies in the lower part of the Nomad row.