Marble Fade Guide: Ice and Fire or Tricolor Pattern?

Marble Fade skins are undoubtedly something you have heard about and know may be quite expensive! Still, how does one decide which skin is worthy of attention and which is not? What does Ice and Fire or Tricolor Pattern mean for Marble Fade skins? Today, we’ll guide you through the unique and incredibly beautiful skins, and you will learn everything about Marble Fade Skins in CS2!

What are marble fade skins? and why are they so cool and expensive?

Before diving into the explanation of Marble fade patterns, their variations, and what they are in general, let’s start our Marble knife guide with getting acquainted with Marble Fade skins because not all readers have been playing for a long time, and perhaps some of you have heard about them for the first time!

Marble Fade is a special skin that can be applied to 18 knives in CS2. Among all other skins, this skin stands out because it has three colors that, depending on the pattern, are arranged differently on the skin.

Players determine whether the pattern is valuable or not depending on how the pattern is applied to the knife. But among 1000 variations, only a couple of dozen are valuable, with interesting combinations of three or two colors. The rarest coloring pattern for Marble Fade skin is 412, which players also call “Ice and Fire”!

Next, we will discuss the Ice and Fire pattern in more detail. However, if you want to learn more about knife types, you can read this guide in this article.

What is a Ice and Fire?

Ice and Fire is one of the 1000 variations of the Marble Fade skin, which is almost entirely covered in only two colors, namely blue and red. This color combination occurs only once out of all 1000 variations in CS2 Fade pattern 412. Just imagine how difficult it is to get a knife with CS2 Marble Fade skin and be lucky enough to get pattern 412 – it’s practically impossible!

Marble Fade Skins Rarity

Marble Fade is a knife skin, which automatically makes it the rarest item. To be more precise, all knives are “Rare Special Items,” and obtaining them is extremely difficult.

Why is it difficult, the game newcomers will ask? The answer is quite simple because Valve officially introduced cases back in 2013, and that’s when they provided information about the rarity of items and the chances of obtaining them.

Here’s more detailed information about the chances of getting skins from a case:

• Mil-Spec (Blue): 79.92%
• Restricted (Purple): 15.98%
• Classified (Pink): 3.2%
• Covert (Red): 0.64%
• Rare Special Items (Gold): 0.26%

As you can see, the chances of getting a knife are the lowest, at only 0.26%. To put that into perspective, it’s only one knife out of 400 opened cases, incredible, isn’t it? But even with such changes, there are popular and less popular Marble Fade skins, so let’s look at this in more detail below in our Fade knife guide.

Most Popular Marble Fade Skins in CS2

As we just mentioned, the chance of obtaining Marble Fade skins is very small. However, even with such a probability, players still pay more attention to certain knife models than others, thus making them popular and even more expensive.

Some prices can reach crazy figures, more than $10,000, $20,000, and even $50,000. And if you want to learn more about the most expensive skins in the game, you can read our article, CS2’s Most Valuable Inventories: The Top 7 Collections.

However, let’s return to the Fade knife guide and consider the most popular knives in the Marble Fade design.

Leading our list, of course, is the universally desired and well-known Butterfly Knife | Marble Fade. This knife was added to the game on March 16, 2017, and from that moment, it immediately captured the hearts of millions of players. The knife especially gained attention after PGL Major Kraków 2017, as many professional players at that time played with this exact knife, increasing its popularity.

The second no less beautiful and popular knife is Karambit | Marble Fade. Until Butterfly Knife | Marble Fade appeared, the Karambit held first place in the list of the best knives in the game, and millions of players desired to obtain it. This is because the knife has a unique visual style and an interesting animation when switching weapons. By the way, the price of this knife practically does not concede to the Butterfly Knife.

And if you liked this knife, you can learn more about it in this article!

Talon Knife | Marble Fade takes third place. In our opinion, this is all because this knife is incredibly similar to the Karambit. However, it has a slightly different handle. Nevertheless, the skin is really beautiful, and players often choose it as a slightly cheaper option.

In fact, different sources have different opinions about which skin deserves third place: Talon Knife | Marble Fade or M9 Bayonet | Marble Fade. However, in our opinion, M9 Bayonet is still in fourth place because the knife is visually quite simple, has a long, strong blade, and players choose it a bit less often. However, in terms of price, it will be more expensive than the Talon Knife!

Bayonet | Marble Fade closes the top 5. This is a good and reliable knife that will not let you down on the battlefield. It has a strong handle and a thick and well-sharpened blade. The knife is actually also a twin brother to the M9 Bayonet, but it is its cheaper version, and the difference is significant because the M9 Bayonet can cost $2000, while the regular Bayonet costs approximately $900-1000.

We have finished with a small Best Fade knife guide for you. Now, some may have a question: how can I get one of these knives? We have already answered this question below.

How to Get Marble Fade Skins

Obtaining a knife with a Marble Fade design is quite difficult. However, let’s consider all the options so that everyone can choose the one they like best.

The first option is, of course, to try opening a case in CS2. For this, you need to choose the knife you like and find out in which case it is located. For example, you can find Talon Knife | Marble Fade in Prisma Case and Prisma 2 Case. However, what are the chances of getting exactly this knife? You will need more than a hundred cases to get any knife at all, let alone a Marble Fade.

The second option is to buy it. Yes, of course, this is the most expensive option that exists, and many users who received such a knife do not want to sell it cheaply, so you will have to pay from $1,000 to $5,000 for one of the popular Marble Fade knives. Pretty expensive, isn’t it?

The third and more realistic way to get a Marble Fade knife is to open a special case that is already filled with such knives. After all, many Hellcase cases contain only knives. You can choose one of them and are guaranteed to get a good knife.

For example, let’s consider Knives CS2 case, a top case chosen by many of our users. Inside this case, you can find such cool skins as Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened, Bayonet | Case Hardened, Flip Knife | Marble Fade, Bayonet | Marble Fade, and many other beautiful and colorful skins that cost a fortune.

Try your luck and get one on Hellcase!

Tips for Finding the Perfect Marble Fade Pattern

If you have decided to find or learn about the best Marble Fade skin patterns, then you need to know a few things.

We have already mentioned that the way the pattern is applied to the knife will change its appearance, so there are many such variations (around 1,000), and each of them is different. Every pattern has its own number (pattern).

If you’re specifically looking for a skin with rare patterns like Ice and Fire or Tricolor, in that case, you should know this design’s pattern and understand that such patterns are available only for certain types of knives, such as Karambit, Bayonet, Flip, and Gut. However, if you simply want a rare pattern on any other knife, you can choose the one you like.

For your convenience, we’ve created a table with the patterns for the Ice and Fire variations of Marble Fade skins.

Rank	Karambit Max	Bayonet Max	Good Knife Max	Flip Knife Max	Pattern Index
1	1st	1st	1st	1st	412
2	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	359, 393, 602, 649, 701
3	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	16, 146
4	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	241, 541, 688
5	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	281, 673, 743
6	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	292, 344, 994
7	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	152, 777
8	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	628, 792
9	4th	4th	4th	4th	332, 129, 918
10	4th	4th	4th	4th	126, 787, 874, 908
11	4th	4th	4th	4th	923
12	4th	4th	4th	Max fake	48, 780
13	5th	5th	5th	Max fake	204, 252, 652, 736, 832
14	5th	5th	5th	Max fake	705, 182, 457, 660, 685
15	5th	5th	5th	Max fake	522, 578, 988
16	6th	6th	6th	Max fake	230, 982, 607, 773
17	6th	6th	6th	Max fake	444, 452, 471, 631
18	6th	6th	6th	Max fake	356
19	6th	6th	6th	Max fake	340, 621,761
20	6th	6th	6th	Max fake	112, 876
21	6th	6th	6th	Max fake	873
22	7th	7th	7th	Fake	14, 274, 614, 653, 795, 826
23	7th	7th	7th	Fake	405, 454, 683, 728
24	7th	7th	7th	Fake	8, 32, 58, 108, 233, 732, 770, 803, 867, 949
25	7th	7th	7th	Fake	213, 243, 702
26	8th	Max fake	Max fake	Fake	337, 378
27	8th	Max fake	Max fake	Fake	188, 202, 971
28	8th	Max fake	Max fake	Fake	5, 178, 406, 539, 696, 854, 966
29	8th	Max fake	Max fake	Fake	655
30	8th	Max fake	Max fake	Fake	461
31	9th	Fake	Fake	Fake	493, 922, 959, 997
32	9th	Fake	Fake	Fake	68, 149, 171, 637
33	9th	Fake	Fake	Fake	287
34	9th	Fake	Fake	Fake	165, 206, 370, 656, 766, 817
35	9th	Fake	Fake	Fake	499, 516, 672, 706
36	9th	Fake	Fake	Fake	121
37	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	238, 545, 591
38	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	177, 546, 589, 977
39	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	764, 844
40	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	156, 868
41	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	402
42	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	28, 791
43	10th	Fake	Fake	Fake	553, 559, 725, 810, 858, 972
44	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	372, 441, 632
45	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	329
46	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	232, 756
47	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	727, 753, 976
48	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	351, 809, 941
49	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	90, 785
50	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	805
51	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	195
52	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	561, 590
53	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	27, 459, 710, 930
54	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	397, 404, 473, 483, 537, 626, 818, 962
55	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	254, 909
56	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	125, 869
57	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	647
58	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	203
59	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	183
60	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	9, 110, 980
61	Max fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	448, 989
62	Fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	506
63	Fake	Fake	Fake	Fake	196, 309, 674

To Sum Up

Choosing the desire Marble Fade skin is quite simple. You only need to know the pattern you want. However, it often happens that the most beautiful patterns are the most expensive, and buying one is not the best option. Maybe you should try opening a few knife cases on Hellcase. Who knows, Miss Fortune might just smile upon you!

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