★ Falchion Knife | Case Hardened (Field-Tested)

The ★ Falchion Knife | Case Hardened (Field-Tested) is a Covert-rarity knife finish carrying the blue, gold, and steel case-hardened patina at its middle grade. Field-Tested balances a still-legible pattern against a lower price than the top two grades.

Design

Rather than a painted design, the blade's coloring comes from case-hardening it with wood charcoal at high temperature, leaving an uneven blend of blue, gold, and steel. It comes attached to the flavor line "A little color never hurt anyone." The exact color split on any copy is decided by its paint seed, and seeds weighted toward blue — the "blue gem" copies — are the ones collectors chase hardest.

★ Falchion Knife | Case Hardened (Field-Tested) Float and Wear

With float spanning the full 0.00 to 1.00 range, this finish covers all five grades, and Field-Tested sits in the middle of that scale. Some added surface texture and light scuffing appear at this level, but the case-hardened coloring stays clearly readable since it doesn't fade or shift with wear the way a painted skin's saturation might. Field-Tested covers roughly 0.15–0.38 on the float scale.

Falchion Knife | Case Hardened Rarity

This finish sits at Covert ★ rarity, the rare special ("knife") tier that stands apart from ordinary weapon rarity grades. Any knife drop from a case is inherently uncommon, worn or not.

Falchion Knife | Case Hardened Case and Collection

Case Hardened is one of the original finishes available for this blade, and it comes out of the Falchion Case specifically. The odds of pulling a knife from that case sit at around 0.26%.

Falchion Knife | Case Hardened Blue Gem Patterns

No aspect of this finish matters more than the paint seed, which fixes how much blue a copy shows against its gold and steel and slots every copy into a tier on that basis. Just a dozen or so of the 1,000 possible seeds ever qualify as blue gems, and pattern #494 leads that short list as a near-fully-blue playside with only a sliver of yellow — the market's #1 benchmark for this knife. A small Tier-1 group trails it, then a long tail of lesser patterns rounds out the field. Because the seed never moves once it's set, a strong blue gem on a Field-Tested copy still outguns a plain gold-and-steel copy in any grade.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak edition of this knife exists too, adding a kill counter that becomes permanent once it starts tracking and travels with the item through every trade. Souvenir versions were never made for knives, since Major-tournament souvenir packages exclude them entirely.

Falchion Knife | Case Hardened Price

Field-Tested lands in the middle of the five-grade ladder, cheaper than Factory New and Minimal Wear but above Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. Case Hardened's upper-mid standing among this knife's finishes still holds here, and a strong blue seed can make a Field-Tested copy worth more than a plain Factory New. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is Field-Tested a good middle ground for Case Hardened?

Yes — it costs less than the top two grades while keeping the case-hardened patina fully readable, since that coloring doesn't fade with wear like a painted finish can. The trade-off is a bit more surface texture and light scuffing, which matters far less to value here than the paint seed does.

What is the best Falchion Knife Case Hardened blue gem seed?

The seed matters more than the wear grade on this finish. Pattern #494 is the top-regarded seed, a near-fully-blue playside with just a sliver of yellow, treated as the #1 benchmark; a small Tier-1 group ranks close behind it, ahead of a long tail of more ordinary patterns. Only about a dozen of the 1,000 seeds qualify as blue gems at all.

What case is the Falchion Knife Case Hardened in?

It comes specifically from the Falchion Case, one of the original sources for this knife's finishes. Any knife pull from that case lands at roughly a 0.26% rate.