eSports 2013 Winter Case is a CS2 case with 12 items plus 65 gold entries. It costs $13.50; opening it with the key comes to $16.14. The expected value of the contents is $11.86 — a 73.4% unboxing ROI, or 74.1% when trade-up contracts are factored in.
Takeaway: an opening costs $16.14 and returns $11.86 on average — a 26.6% long-run loss. The median opening returns $3.39: half of all tries return that much or less. The key eats 16% of your spend. A full breakdown of every case is in the article Best CS2 cases in August 2026.
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More facts about eSports 2013 Winter Case
December 18, 2013release date · 13 yr ago
retiredweekly drops · as of 2026-07-02
+10.4%price over 2 weeks
488live listings in our DB
$248buy all 12 non-gold skins
Buying the contents outright is cheaper than unboxing: all 12 regular skins cost $248 — the price of 15.3 openings at $16.14 each. The priciest is M4A4 | X-Ray at $74.21, the cheapest is Nova | Ghost Camo at $1.51.
The case is retired from weekly drops: no new copies enter the game, and existing ones are consumed by openings.
No. An opening costs $16.14 ($13.50 for the case plus $2.64 for the key) while the contents average $11.86 — a 73.4% ROI. The chance a single opening returns more than you spent is 22.1%.
How much does it cost to open eSports 2013 Winter Case?
$16.14: the case itself is $13.50 (cheapest on CSFloat) plus the $2.64 key. Keys are sold only by Valve at a fixed price.
What do you usually get from eSports 2013 Winter Case?
The median single opening returns $3.39 — half of all openings return that much or less against a $16.14 cost. The best 10% of openings drop an item worth more than $26.58.
What does the "with contracts" column mean?
Some drops are worth more as trade-up contract inputs than sold outright. Counting the better of "sell" vs "feed into a contract", the eSports 2013 Winter Case ROI rises from 73.4% to 74.1%.
What are the knife odds in eSports 2013 Winter Case?
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 $6,312.
Where is eSports 2013 Winter Case cheapest?
Right now the low is $13.50 on CSFloat; the highest we track is $26.95 — a 100% spread between markets.
Prices are aggregated from 11 marketplaces into our own database and refresh automatically; USD values are converted from RUB at the current central-bank rate. CS2Price does not sell items — we compare prices and compute profitable trade-up contracts. Not affiliated with Valve.
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