CS:GO Weapon Case 2 is a CS2 case with 12 items plus 65 gold entries. It costs $17.96; opening it with the key comes to $20.80. The expected value of the contents is $10.46 — a 50.3% unboxing ROI.
Takeaway: an opening costs $20.80 and returns $10.46 on average — a 49.7% long-run loss. The median opening returns $4.94: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 14% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
Where CS:GO Weapon Case 2 came from
More facts about CS:GO Weapon Case 2
November 6, 2013release date · 13 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
−1.7%price over 2 weeks
188live listings in our DB
$235buy all 12 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 12 regular skins cost $235 — the price of 11.3 openings at $20.80 each. The priciest is SSG 08 | Blood in the Water at $78.81, the cheapest is FAMAS | Hexane at $1.84.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $20.80 ($17.96 for the case plus $2.84 for the key) while the contents average $10.46 — a 50.3% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 19.5%.
How much does it cost to open CS:GO Weapon Case 2?
$20.80: the case itself is $17.96 (cheapest on Skinport) plus the $2.84 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from CS:GO Weapon Case 2?
The median single opening returns $4.94 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $20.80 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $21.48.
What are the knife odds in CS:GO Weapon Case 2?
0.26% — roughly one opening in 391. The gold pool has 65 entries picked with equal probability; the wear rolls separately. That many openings cost about $8,131.
Where is CS:GO Weapon Case 2 cheapest?
Right now the low is $17.96 on Skinport; the highest we track is $36.22 — a 102% spread between markets.
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