★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate (Field-Tested)

This is the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in Field-Tested (FT), and the kill counter makes it a separate item next to the regular butterfly knife. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The sources of the knife in CS2 are the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. You can buy this knife at any float from 0.15 to 0.38.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is dark steel with a silvery bloom left by stonewash treatment. The handles are black, and each holds a light laminate panel with beige-gray swirls that look like camouflage. The mechanism and the holes in the handles stay dark.

For this knife the 0.15 to 0.38 band is wide: the wear label is the same, the condition differs. Wear is fixed at the drop, and on the dark blade it reads as light marks near the edge.

Phase and pattern

This knife cannot be bought with a "rare" pattern, since every copy has the same artwork. The finish has no phases or gems, and what tells listings apart is the float and the number on the counter.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate came from

Valve announced Operation Riptide on September 22, 2021. It brought the case in which this finish is listed.

What to check before buying

What sets one ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate apart from another:

• the counter reading: it passes to the buyer as it stands and cannot be reset;


• float inside 0.15 to 0.38;


• applied name: a name tag is allowed on the knife, and there are no stickers;


• the condition of the light panels on the handles.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate costs in Field-Tested

The counter version costs slightly more than the regular one. Across wears, Factory New costs 2.14 times as much, Minimal Wear is level, Well-Worn is cheaper by a factor of 1.07 and Battle-Scarred by 1.06.

In the StatTrak lineup of Covert butterfly knives, this finish stands almost in the middle: of eighteen, eight are cheaper and nine pricier. Damascus Steel, Stained and Ultraviolet rank above it, and Freehand and Night below. The floor of the row is Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT, and the peak is Blue Steel, Case Hardened and Slaughter.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate

The route to it runs through the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. Whether the counter is present, and the wear, are decided randomly at the moment of opening.

Through a craft, a StatTrak knife comes only from five StatTrak Covert skins of one type: the game does not let you mix them with regular ones. The result is random.

StatTrak and the normal version

If you do not need the counter, there is the regular Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate, which costs about five percent less. Knives have no Souvenir versions.

Who this wear suits

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate makes sense in this wear if:

• you want a butterfly knife with a counter, and Minimal Wear costs the same;


• the light panels on the handles should stand out against the dark steel;


• your CS2 loadout is black and gray, and the butterfly knife adds a kill counter to it.