Hand Wraps in CS2: All 12 Finishes, Bands and Which Case (2026)

Hand Wraps are the odd family out: not gloves but wrapped gauze and tape with the fingertips bare, which is why they are the family whose Battle-Scarred pairs look most intentional. Twelve finishes across the three case sets ran from about $35 for a Desert Shamagh to about $1,190 for a Factory New Slaughter on 9 September 2026. This fitting covers all twelve, the print-versus-dye rule that decides which ones to buy worn, and the case each comes from.

What Hand Wraps are

Valve's text: "preferred by hand-to-hand fighters, these wraps protect the knuckles and stabilize the wrist when punching." They are bias-tape or gauze wound over the palm and knuckles, fingers bare, and the finish is a dye or a print on the tape. Four came in the Glove Case set in 2016, four in the Clutch set in 2018 and four in the Broken Fang set in 2020; the Dead Hand Collection added none.

The Glove Case set: Slaughter, Leather, Badlands, Spruce DDPAT

Slaughter is the family's most expensive finish at ≈$163 BS to ≈$1,192 FN — crimson-dyed wraps whose item text jokes that you cannot see where the fabric ends and the bloodstains begin; Leather (≈$185 BS to ≈$988 FN) is brown leather over gauze and the second prize; Badlands (≈$85 BS to ≈$699 FN) is the scavenged-materials pair; Spruce DDPAT (≈$90 BS to ≈$571 FN) the grey digital camo. All four are Glove Case and Hydra items, so supply is thin and the mid-wear asks can sit out of order.

The Clutch set: Cobalt Skulls, Duct Tape, Overprint, Arboreal

Cobalt Skulls (≈$149 BS to ≈$1,123 FN) is the family's icon and the best blue glove under $150; Duct Tape (≈$40 BS to ≈$436 FN) is grey tape over gauze, the most searched budget glove in the game and the pair that looks correct scuffed; Overprint (≈$57 BS to ≈$385 FN) is black tape with a rubberised geometric print; Arboreal (≈$36 BS to ≈$156 FN) is the forest camo and the family's second-cheapest entry. Clutch and Revolution cases; five Revolution Coverts craft one for about $110, which keeps this set's floor low.

The Broken Fang set: CAUTION!, Desert Shamagh, Giraffe, Constrictor

CAUTION! (≈$91 BS to ≈$559 FN) is hazard tape and the only yellow glove that reads as yellow at range; Desert Shamagh (≈$35 BS to ≈$233 FN) is the tan keffiyeh print and the family floor; Giraffe (≈$36 BS to ≈$193 FN) and Constrictor (≈$36 BS to ≈$209 FN) are the animal prints at about $36. Broken Fang, Snakebite and Recoil cases; five Snakebite or Recoil Coverts craft one for about $115–130.

Cobalt Skulls or Slaughter: the two with a ceiling

Cobalt Skulls for a loadout, Slaughter for a collection. They are the only Hand Wraps whose Factory New listings clear $1,000 — Cobalt Skulls at ≈$149 BS to ≈$1,123 FN, Slaughter at ≈$163 BS to ≈$1,192 FN on 9 September 2026 — and they get there by opposite routes. Cobalt Skulls is a 2018 Clutch-set print that stays liquid because it is the blue glove everyone under $150 shops for; Slaughter is a 2016 Glove Case dye whose supply is thin and whose asks jump between wears. In first person the skull print reads at any float, while Slaughter's crimson needs a low float to stay crimson, so a Field-Tested Cobalt Skulls is a safer purchase than a Field-Tested Slaughter at the same money.

Why Hand Wraps are the fastest-moving floor

Because they are the cheapest thing a trade-up can make. Five Revolution or Snakebite Coverts cost about $110–130 in Battle-Scarred and return a random glove from a 24-glove set in which four are Hand Wraps, and a Battle-Scarred wrap is exactly what a Battle-Scarred trade-up produces. On 9 September 2026 five of the twelve wraps listed under $40, and the July-to-September fall in the family's floor tracked the same trade-up supply that pulled the Hydra Gloves down. If you want a wrap, there is no reason to wait for a better price; if you want to sell one, expect to price under the last sale.

Wear on Hand Wraps: prints over dyes

Tape is supposed to be scuffed, so a Battle-Scarred Duct Tape or CAUTION! looks like a used pair rather than a ruined one — the only family where the top of the float window is a look rather than a defect. The exception is dye: Slaughter and Leather discolour above about 0.40 and lose the deep colour that is the whole point. Rule: prints (Cobalt Skulls, CAUTION!, Giraffe, Constrictor, Spruce, Arboreal, Overprint) at any float you like; dyes (Slaughter, Leather, Badlands) in Field-Tested under 0.30.

All 12 Hand Wraps by band, read 9 September 2026

Which case, and where to buy

Hand Wraps drop from all seven glove cases and not from the Dead Hand Terminal, so the case and trade-up routes in the complete CS2 gloves guide apply and the terminal does not. For a Cobalt Skulls or Slaughter use a float-visible listing (Skinport, CSFloat, SkinBaron for the 2016 pair); for Duct Tape at the floor the float barely matters, so a bot swap of skins you already own is fine. Expected spend to pull any glove from a Snakebite Case at the reported 0.26 percent is about $1,100; a Duct Tape listing is $40.