★ Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened (Field-Tested)

The ★ Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened (Field-Tested, FT) brings the finish's variegated metallic pattern into its most common condition. It's the midpoint of the range — real wear visible, but still a clear step above the roughest grades and priced friendlier than the top two.

Design

The finish keeps its shifting metallic surface across the vegan leather, moving between cooler and warmer tones rather than sitting flat. There's no separate graphic or logo added on top — the mottled metal look is the whole design, and that stays consistent no matter the wear.

★ Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened (Field-Tested) Float and Wear

Field-Tested spans 0.15 to 0.38 inside the finish's 0.06–0.80 range. Here the leather picks up honest fading and light creasing across the knuckles and fingers, while the metallic pattern loses a touch of sharpness but stays clearly visible. It's a wear level that reads as used without looking rough.

Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened Rarity

Rarity: Extraordinary ★ — the glove rarity tier, the rare special "glove" item drawn from its case pool. Landing any finish in this tier is a rare case pull, whatever wear it comes out in.

Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened Case

Case Hardened comes out of the Clutch Case and the Revolution Case, giving it two possible sources rather than one. Both cases place gloves in the rare special "glove" tier, which drops at about 0.28% of openings — a rate spread across every glove finish available, not weighted toward this one.

Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened Pattern and Colorway

Every copy of Case Hardened shares the same fixed metallic print on the vegan leather — there's no paint seed and no "blue gem" version to look out for. The only real variable from one pair to the next is float.

StatTrak & Souvenir

No StatTrak™ variant exists for this finish or for gloves generally, since there's no kill-tracking mechanic built into them. Souvenir is likewise absent, as Souvenir items are only handed out through Major-tournament packages, which gloves never appear in.

Hydra Gloves | Case Hardened Price

Field-Tested lands in the middle of the Case Hardened ladder, cheaper than Minimal Wear (MW) and Factory New (FN) while clearly ahead of the two worn grades below it. It's the balance point for buyers who want the pattern without paying grail-tier prices for the lowest float. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is Field-Tested a good value grade for Case Hardened?

For most buyers, yes. It costs meaningfully less than the top two grades while still showing the metallic pattern clearly, making it the wear level a lot of players settle on when the lowest possible float isn't a priority.

How worn does the Field-Tested Case Hardened look?

Expect visible fading and light creasing on the knuckles and fingers, more than Minimal Wear but nowhere near the heavier scuffing on Well-Worn (WW) or Battle-Scarred (BS). The metallic pattern stays identifiable even with that wear present.

Does the metallic pattern still read clearly at Field-Tested?

Yes, though it loses a bit of the sharp contrast it has at the cleaner grades. The shifting tones are still easy to make out on close inspection, and remain one of the more recognizable details of the finish at this wear level.