Marble Fade Tier List — Fire & Ice Patterns
Marble Fade swirls red, yellow and blue from the paint seed — and the tier list is about what's missing: the less yellow, the higher the tier. At the top sit the Fire & Ice patterns, where the blade splits into almost pure red and blue.
Every tier, seed by seed
The community tier lists, exactly as CSWatcher’s tier rules use them. Pick an item, or look up a pattern number.
Tiers are community rankings of paint seeds; a tier rule matches exactly the seeds listed. Prices are not shown here: they move with every listing.
Fire & Ice, explained
A Fire & Ice pattern shows a near-clean two-color split with the yellow band minimal or gone. Community lists rank the best examples per knife as "1st max", "2nd max" and so on, by how clean the split is on the playside. On the Karambit they're among the most recognizable pattern skins in CS2, with prices to match.
Tricolors and the mid tiers
Below Fire & Ice sit the tricolors — patterns with a strong, deliberate band of all three colors — and then the ordinary rolls where yellow dominates. Tricolors are the budget entry into the family: visibly special, meaningfully cheaper than a max pattern.
Knife by knife
The classic Marble Fade four — Karambit, Bayonet, Flip and Gut — carry the famous lists, with the Karambit Fire & Ice as the family flagship. The newer knife models that received the finish have their own max-pattern lists with thinner supply, which is where quiet deals happen.
Judging one for yourself
Fire & Ice is graded on how cleanly the two colours separate, so look for the yellow first — it is the thing whose absence you are paying for, and a thin band surviving somewhere on the playside is the usual reason an example ranks below the one above it. Then check which face carries the split, because the same knife can show a textbook pattern on the side nobody sees. Wear is the quiet third factor: Marble Fade's appeal is saturation, and a scuffed blade dulls exactly the contrast that makes the pattern worth its premium, which is why low-float examples of good patterns are chased twice over.
Where the value sits in this family
Steeply concentrated. A handful of ranked max patterns per knife carry most of the premium, tricolors occupy a real but much smaller step above ordinary, and everything else trades as a normal Marble Fade regardless of how nice you personally find it. That distribution is worth knowing before you pay up for something described as "close to a max" — proximity to a grail is not itself a grail, and the resale market on this family is unusually literal about which list a pattern appears on.
Hunting max patterns
Marble Fade sellers price by item and wear; the seed quietly decides whether that price is right. Keep the max-pattern seeds for the knives you follow on watch across every marketplace CSWatcher covers, and take the alert — or, on CSFloat, the hands-off buy — on the day somebody lists a Fire & Ice at tricolor money.
What is a Fire & Ice Marble Fade?
A pattern where the marble shows almost only red and blue — the yellow band is minimal or gone. Maximum examples ("1st max") are ranked by how clean the two-color split is; on the Karambit they're among the most recognizable pattern skins in the game.
What is a tricolor Marble Fade?
A pattern with a strong, visible band of all three colors — red, yellow and blue — usually ranked below Fire & Ice but above ordinary rolls. It's the budget entry into Marble Fade pattern collecting.
Which knives can roll Fire & Ice?
The classic Marble Fade knives — Karambit, Bayonet, Flip and Gut — plus the newer models that later received the finish. The Karambit Fire & Ice is the famous one, and per-knife tier lists rank the max patterns for each model.