★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers | Black Laminate (Battle-Scarred)

Skin overview

★ Shadow Daggers | Black Laminate in Battle-Scarred is the most rugged take on the dark blade and striped laminate grip. The handle bands are broken up on the raised parts and edges, and the stonewashed blade looks heavily scuffed. Since the design is already muted and grey, the heavy wear changes the mood more than the recognisability.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Gunsmith: several techniques combined on one item; some parts rub off, others only dull.

How the skin looks in Battle-Scarred

Both blades carry a dark grey stonewashed finish with a mottled, uneven texture and a slightly lighter edge toward the tip. The T-shaped handles are covered in wavy laminate stripes of black, grey and white that follow the curves of the grips and wrap around the finger cutouts.

The stripes are broken up across the grips, especially on raised parts, edges and the guard. The blades are heavily scuffed over most of their surface, and the swirl near the guard is only partly visible. In game the knife reads as a worn grey push dagger with a hint of striping. Some laminate pattern survives in the recessed areas of the handles.

Battle-Scarred wear: float 0.45–1

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers | Black Laminate is 0–1; Battle-Scarred takes the 0.45–1 segment (55% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Operation Riptide Case
• Dreams & Nightmares Case

What it costs in each quality

Taking Battle-Scarred as the baseline:

• Factory New — 2.6× dearer
• Minimal Wear — 14% dearer
• Field-Tested — 1% cheaper
• Well-Worn — about the same

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 18 skins of the Shadow Daggers in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin is the most affordable.

StatTrak™ version

This is the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon shows confirmed kills. There is also the regular version without the counter. Right now the StatTrak™ version is 21% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the chosen wear, since copies near the cleaner end keep noticeably sharper stripes.
• Inspect the rims of the grips and the edges of the finger openings, as the laminate fades there first.
• Look at the blade tip and edge in the inspect view, because scratches show early on the stonewashed steel.
• Note whether the knife carries a name tag and whether you want it, since knives do not take stickers.

Who the Battle-Scarred quality suits

• Players looking for the most affordable entry into this knife.
• Those who like a rough, heavily used aesthetic.
• The budget pick for owning the knife itself.