★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Freehand (Field-Tested)

In Field-Tested (FT), the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Freehand sits mid-scale, on a wide float band. The knife is Covert rank, carries the ★ mark and has a working StatTrak™ counter.

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

The handles have a black ground with elongated purple inserts, and the catch is dark with a purple tint. The blade is painted with light marks that recall hieroglyphs and street lettering. Valve classes the finish as anodized multicolor.

In Field-Tested the painting on the blade dulls, and scuffs show on the edge and on the raised parts of the handles. Wear is fixed at the drop. The float range for this knife is 0.15 to 0.38. The choice here is made inside 0.15 to 0.38, because the difference between the top and the bottom of the segment is visible.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Freehand came from

Valve introduced Operation Riptide on September 22, 2021, and the case of that operation gives the Freehand finish. A second case, Dreams & Nightmares, added another source.

What to check before buying

In a ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Freehand listing, check these parameters:

• float: the band takes up 48% of the skin's scale, and 0.15 is noticeably cleaner than 0.38;


• the StatTrak Swap Tool only swaps the readings of two items of the same type, while the count on the Freehand itself is read off the listing;


• name tag: it exists on a knife with the Freehand finish, and the applied name is kept.

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

Factory New costs 1.49 times as much, Minimal Wear 1.30 times as much and Well-Worn 1.30 times as much. Here the StatTrak version costs about the same as the normal one.

Among eighteen StatTrak butterfly finishes in this wear, Freehand costs more than seven and less than ten. Above it are Ultraviolet and Black Laminate, with Night almost level, and below it Bright Water and Urban Masked. The cheapest are Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT, and the priciest are Blue Steel, Case Hardened and Slaughter.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Freehand

In CS2 the finish comes from two cases, the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and wear is set at the drop. A StatTrak copy can also come from a craft: five Covert StatTrak skins of one type turn into one random rare special item. They cannot be mixed with skins without StatTrak, so the wear you need is bought as a ready lot.

StatTrak and the normal version

This page covers the StatTrak variant, and in this wear its price is almost level with the normal Butterfly Knife | Freehand. If you do not need the kill counter, the normal version is sold as a separate product with the same finish.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Freehand in Field-Tested makes sense in these cases:

• you want a kill counter without paying extra, because in this wear the StatTrak version costs no more than the normal one;


• the wear is acceptable, and you do not need Factory New at 1.49 times the price;


• you pick the float by number, closer to 0.15, so that the painting stays cleaner in CS2.