Real CS2 Cases: Check the Odds and Skins

Every CS2 weapon case in one place

This page lists every weapon case in Counter-Strike 2, from the original CS:GO Weapon Case of 2013 to the newest release. Each one links to its own page with the full contents, the rare special pool, today’s prices and a free simulator. Use the search to find a case by name, or sort by price or by average return.

How to open a CS2 case in the game

1. Get a case. Cases come from the weekly drop for Prime accounts, or you can buy one on the Steam Community Market.
2. Buy a key. Keys cost $2.49 (prices vary by region) and are bought in the game.
3. Open the case from your inventory. The reel spins and you get one item.

The case and the key are used up, and the item goes into your inventory, where you can keep it, trade it or sell it on the market.

Odds and the rare special item

Every weapon case uses the same odds, published by Valve in 2017: 79.92% Mil-Spec, 15.98% Restricted, 3.2% Classified, 0.64% Covert and 0.26% for a rare special item. What changes from case to case is what’s inside each rarity:

• Knife cases have a pool of knives, sometimes just one model in many finishes, sometimes several models.
• Glove cases have gloves instead of knives.
• Some cases mix knives and gloves.

The rare pool is often the reason to choose one case over another. Each case page lists every knife or glove it can drop, with the price range of each.

Old cases vs new cases

Older cases tend to cost more to buy, because fewer of them drop today and collectors keep them. Newer cases are usually cheap at first and get more expensive once they leave the weekly drop pool. The skins inside follow a similar pattern: rare items from discontinued cases can become very valuable over time.

That’s why the average return differs so much between cases even though the odds are identical. A case full of popular skins with an expensive knife pool can return far more per opening than a case with cheap skins, even before you count the price of the case itself.

How we calculate the average return

For each case, we take the chance of every item, the chance of each wear and of StatTrak™, and today’s market price for every combination. Adding all of that up gives the average value of one opening. Dividing it by the cost (the case plus a $2.49 key) gives the average return. Prices come from a public market price list and are refreshed every time the site is published.

An average return of 50% means that, over many openings, you’d get back about half of what you spent. Most openings give less than the average; a few rare drops pull it up.

Before you open a case for real

• Open it a few hundred times in the simulator to get a feel for how often anything good drops.
• Look at the cost and the average return on its page.
• Set a budget, and remember that the key alone costs $2.49 every time.

If you’d rather play for real at lower prices, case opening sites sell their own cases from a few cents. Our case site rankings compare them on trust, odds and withdrawals.