The 22 New CS2 Gloves: Every Dead Hand Glove, How the Terminal Works, Bands (2026)

The new CS2 gloves are the 22 finishes of the Dead Hand Collection, released on 11 March 2026 — eight Driver, seven Specialist and seven Sport Gloves, the first new gloves since Operation Broken Fang in December 2020. They do not come from a case: they are offered by the Sealed Dead Hand Terminal, a weekly drop, or crafted from five of the terminal's Covert skins. On 9 September 2026 they ran from about $63 for a Battle-Scarred Driver Gloves | Seigaiha to about $5,000 for a Factory New Sport Gloves | Ultra Violent. Every one is below, with what the terminal actually does.

What Valve shipped on 11 March 2026

The update note reads, in full on the subject: "The Dead Hand Collection is now available, featuring 17 finishes from community contributors, and including 22 all-new gloves as rare special items. Access items in the Dead Hand Collection via the Dead Hand Terminal, available as a weekly drop." That is the whole official description. The rest — offer mechanics, prices, odds — comes from how the earlier Genesis Terminal (16 September 2025) behaves and from listings.

Twenty-two is a bigger set than any case ever carried (cases hold 24 gloves but share them across two or three cases). It is also the first time gloves were added without a matching family: no Moto, Hand Wraps or fingerless finishes, only the three full-glove families with the most visible surface.

How the Sealed Dead Hand Terminal works

You do not open a terminal; you negotiate with it. Unsealing starts a three-day window in which an in-game arms dealer makes up to five sequential offers, each a specific item from the collection with its wear, float and StatTrak status shown and a Steam Wallet price attached. Accept one and you pay Valve that price; decline and the next offer appears; decline all five, or let the three days run out, and the terminal is gone with nothing. Accepted items carry a seven-day hold and an Original Owner tag. Since 4 March 2026 you can set a maximum offer limit so the dealer only shows offers up to that price.

Two things the guides get wrong. There is no key: the terminal itself is nearly free (about $0.34 on the Steam Market on 9 September 2026) and the cost is whatever Valve prices the offer at. And the odds of being offered a glove rather than one of the 17 weapon finishes have never been published — trackers display the standard 0.26 percent case odds against the terminal, but Valve has not said the terminal works that way. Players in Germany and the Netherlands additionally open all containers through an X-Ray Scanner since 16 March 2026.

The other route: five Dead Hand Coverts

Because the terminal's collection contains only gloves as rare items, five of its regular Covert skins — AWP | Queen's Gambit and Glock-18 | Fully Tuned — always trade up into a Dead Hand glove. On 9 September 2026 both listed from about $33 in Battle-Scarred, so roughly $165 crafts a random Battle-Scarred glove from a set whose 22 floors average about $148. That is close to break-even at the floor and the reason the cheaper new gloves keep drifting down. The output float follows the inputs' average, so Battle-Scarred reds make a Battle-Scarred glove; the mechanics are in the complete CS2 gloves guide.

The seven Sport Gloves

Ultra Violent (≈$559 BS to ≈$5,028 FN) and Occult (≈$286 BS to ≈$1,950 FN) lead the set — the first purple, the second a red-and-yellow velvet; Violet Beadwork (≈$147 BS to ≈$1,770 FN) is the second purple; Red Racer (≈$102 BS to ≈$1,639 FN) is the red and Blaze (≈$97 BS to ≈$999 FN — transparent paint airbrushed over a chrome base, per the item text) the orange flame; Frosty (≈$113 BS to ≈$1,082 FN) is icy cyan; Creme Pinstripe (≈$69 BS to ≈$975 FN) is the cream and the cheapest Sport in the set. All seven are in the Sport Gloves fitting with the rest of the family.

The seven Specialist Gloves

Pillow Punchers (≈$225 BS to ≈$4,168 FN) is the set's second most expensive glove; Cloud Chaser (≈$265 BS to ≈$1,882 FN) and Blackbook (≈$168 BS to ≈$1,600 FN) follow; Lime Polycam (≈$160 BS to ≈$1,565 FN) is the lime camo; Big Swell (≈$123 BS to ≈$1,394 FN) the wave; Sunburst (≈$114 BS to ≈$960 FN) the orange-to-red gradient; Chocolate Chesterfield (≈$70 BS to ≈$846 FN) the brown quilted pair and the cheapest. Full family context in the Specialist Gloves fitting.

The eight Driver Gloves

Garden (≈$132 BS to ≈$1,371 FN) is the set's premium Driver and the most searched new glove by name; Wave Chaser (≈$118 BS to ≈$1,968 FN) is the white silk pair with a dragon motif; Brocade Crane (≈$109 BS to ≈$1,608 FN) and Brocade Flowers (≈$102 BS to ≈$1,508 FN) the woven pair; Hand Sweaters (≈$83 BS to ≈$1,060 FN) the green knitted novelty; Plum Quill (≈$82 BS to ≈$624 FN) the purple; Dragon Fists (≈$71 BS to ≈$990 FN) the red dragon-scale; Seigaiha (≈$63 BS to ≈$864 FN) the metallic-blue Japanese wave print and the cheapest new glove in the game. The whole family is in the Driver Gloves fitting.

All 22 new gloves by band, read 9 September 2026

Should you buy a new glove or an old one?

Buy a new glove if you want the pattern; buy an old one if you want the price. The 2026 set carries a novelty premium — the cheapest new glove costs more than twenty finishes from the older sets — and that premium has been eroding since March as terminals and trade-ups add supply. The old sets, by contrast, halved in October 2025 and have been flat-to-down since. If you are choosing between a Field-Tested Seigaiha and a Field-Tested Racing Green, you are paying about $40 for the new print; for Garden versus Snow Leopard the gap is smaller than it looks and Snow Leopard is far more liquid.