Bowie Knife | Fade

Bowie Knife | Fade released February 17, 2016 as part of the Operation Wildfire Case.

It originally released during the CS:GO era, before Valve's Counter-Strike 2 relaunch in September 2023 — its artwork, wear range, and source carried over unchanged into CS2.

It launched as an Extraordinary-tier finish, with a StatTrak™ edition but no Souvenir version.

As a finish, "Fade" is applied to the Bowie Knife — a large fixed blade modeled after the classic American Bowie knife design — and carries the red rarity color every Extraordinary-tier skin shares on the Steam Market and in-game.

That Extraordinary classification places it in CS2's rarest tier overall — the same bracket every knife and glove finish occupies, one step above even Covert weapon skins.

Bowie Knife | Fade only ships in 2 of the five wear conditions (Factory New, Minimal Wear) — there's no Field-Tested or Well-Worn or Battle-Scarred release for this finish.

As with every CS2 skin, lower float values look cleaner: Factory New copies (roughly below 0.07 float) show the finish at its sharpest, while Field-Tested and Well-Worn pieces make up the most commonly traded middle ground between mint and heavily worn.

Bowie Knife | Fade comes from the Operation Wildfire Case — the Case is no longer part of the active drop pool, so trading and the Steam Community Market are the ways to acquire it today.

Valve's own published Case odds put an Extraordinary-tier pull like this one at roughly 1 in 5000 (0.0200%).

Alongside the Normal version, this finish also has a StatTrak™ edition that tracks confirmed kills — there's no Souvenir version.

Beyond that, there's no separate "phase" or pattern family tied to this finish in the site's data — it's tracked as a single fixed look across every wear condition it ships in.

Extraordinary-tier pulls like this one are inherently the rarest outcome of opening the Cases that contain them, which alone keeps demand — and market prices — meaningfully higher than the tiers below it.

Its StatTrak™ edition tends to trade at a premium over the Normal version, the same pattern seen across most CS2 skins with that variant available.

Bowie Knife | Fade has been part of the Operation Wildfire Case since February 17, 2016, and like every CS:GO-era CS2 skin, carried over unchanged when Valve relaunched the game on the Source 2 engine in 2023 — the artwork, wear range, and source Case/Collection are the same today as they were before the migration.

This finish is one of 13 distinct Extraordinary finishes in the Operation Wildfire Case's rare-special drop pool.

This is one of 35 Bowie Knife skins currently listed on the site, spanning multiple rarity tiers.