About ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened
The ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened in Battle-Scarred is the deep-discount entry into Butterfly Case Hardened pattern hunting — same Bravo Collection (September 2013) finish and same blue-gem-tier logic as the higher-wear copies, but at the wear floor where pattern-first buyers can chase seed quality without the float premium. The Butterfly's flippable blade still shows the pattern dynamically during inspect — the wear sits on the steel texture, not on the colour layer.
Why BS still works for pattern hunting
Case Hardened's value-driver is colour distribution, and the seed determines that distribution independent of wear. A high-blue play face on a Butterfly Case Hardened BS still commands a multiple of an average-pattern Factory New — the wear tier influences price, but the seed dominates. The Butterfly's flip mechanic also helps: the inspect animation cycles through angles fast enough that the wear texture reads as patina rather than damage, while the colour patches stay the focus of attention.
What changes from WW to BS
BS introduces a denser layer of micro-scratches on the case-hardened surface, particularly clustering on the spine and the blade edges. The colour patches themselves stay at MW-comparable saturation — the wear hits the texture, not the underlying colour map. For average-pattern copies, BS sits as the wear floor with the steepest price discount; for tier-1 patterns, BS narrows the discount because the seed is still doing the heavy lifting on valuation. Pattern hunters in BS pay attention to the seed records, not the wear tier.
