★ Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened (Factory New)

The ★ Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened (Factory New) is a Covert-rarity dual-dagger finish carrying a blue, gold, and steel patina from a color case-hardening process. Factory New is the lowest-float, crispest grade the blades come in, and it's the grade collectors want when a paint seed is running heavy blue.

Design

The blades get their look from being color case-hardened through wood charcoal applied at high heat, which leaves an irregular blue, gold, and steel patina rather than a painted graphic. They carry the line "A little color never hurt anyone." That patina isn't uniform — the paint seed decides how much blue lands where on each blade, and the most heavily blue "blue gem" copies trade far above ordinary ones.

★ Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened (Factory New) Float and Wear

Case Hardened runs the full float range from 0.00 up to 1.00, so all five grades exist, and Factory New sits at the clean, low-float end of that scale. At this level the case-hardened patina on both blades reads at its sharpest, with the blue, gold, and steel zones clearly separated and none of the surface roughness that shows up on lower grades. Factory New occupies the 0.00–0.07 float band.

Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened Rarity

This is a Covert ★ item, the gold-tier rare special drop that sits outside the usual weapon rarity ladder entirely. Pulling any knife from a case is a rare event on its own, and the Shadow Daggers are no exception.

Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened Case and Collection

Case Hardened comes from the Shadow Case, giving buyers one confirmed source for the finish rather than a scattered history across many drops. The rare-special pull rate for landing a knife from that case sits at roughly 0.26%.

Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened Blue Gem Patterns

Case Hardened is the blue-gem finish of this knife's lineup, and the paint seed is everything — it decides how much blue versus gold and steel ends up covering each blade, and copies get ranked into tiers purely on that blue coverage. Pattern #56 is the legendary seed here: a near-perfect clean blue playside that stands alone at the top as the market's benchmark and by far the priciest copy of the finish. Behind it sit high-tier seeds #505 and #866, and then a long tail of lesser blue patterns fills out the rest. That seed is locked in for the life of the copy and never shifts with wear, so a heavy blue gem trades far above an ordinary gold-and-steel copy at any grade.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak version of this knife exists alongside the regular one, adding a permanent confirmed-kill counter that carries through trades and sales. There's no Souvenir edition — knives are never included in Major-tournament souvenir packages, regardless of which case or seed produced them.

Shadow Daggers | Case Hardened Price

Factory New sits at the top of this finish's price ladder, above the four lower grades, and Case Hardened as a whole already ranks grail-tier among this knife's finishes. It's a genuinely pricier pick within the lineup rather than an entry point, though a strong blue seed can push any grade well past a plain one. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

What case is the Shadow Daggers Case Hardened in?

It comes from the Shadow Case, the confirmed source for this finish. The rare-special pull rate for landing any knife from that case sits at roughly 0.26%, regardless of which finish or seed the drop turns out to be.

What is the best Shadow Daggers Case Hardened blue gem seed?

Pattern #56 is the legendary benchmark — a near-perfect clean blue playside regarded as the top Shadow Daggers blue gem and by far the priciest copy of the finish. High-tier seeds #505 and #866 sit just below it, followed by a long tail of lesser blue patterns. The seed is fixed per copy for good, so it never changes as the daggers wear.

Is the most accessible Case Hardened grade still worth it?

Even the lower grades of this finish carry real value — this is grail-tier pricing within the knife's own lineup, not a cheap option. What changes most between grades is surface wear and how clearly the patina reads; the underlying paint seed and its blue-gold-steel split matter just as much to price as the wear grade does.