Dreams & Nightmares Case

Active weekly dropReleased January 202217 skins + 30 knives

The Dreams & Nightmares Case holds 17 community-designed skins and 30 rare special knives. Opening one takes a $2.49 key, and every opening has a 0.26% chance of a knife. Its priciest knife lists from $8,977. It is still in the weekly drop pool, so new cases keep entering the market.

Key

$2.49

Chance of a knife

0.26%

Top knife listing

$8,977

Dreams & Nightmares Case in CS2

Dreams & Nightmares Case price

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What's in the Dreams & Nightmares Case?

The Dreams & Nightmares Case contains 17 skins: two Covert, three Classified, five Restricted and seven Mil-Spec. It also contains 30 rare special knives: the Bowie Knife, Butterfly Knife, Falchion Knife, Huntsman Knife and Shadow Daggers, each in the six Gamma finishes. Every skin can also drop as StatTrak™.

Covert · 2

0.64% per opening for the tier, about 0.32% for each skin

These skins form The Dreams & Nightmares Collection.

Dreams & Nightmares Case knives

The case drops five knife types, each in six finishes, for 30 possible knives. The cheapest is a Shadow Daggers | Bright Water at $36.80, and the top listing is a Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald.

All 30 Dreams & Nightmares Case knives with prices and odds ›

Dreams & Nightmares Case odds

Every opening gives a Mil-Spec skin 79.92% of the time, Restricted 15.98%, Classified 3.20%, Covert 0.64% and a knife 0.26%. So the MP9 | Starlight Protector drops in about 1 in 313 openings and any single knife type in about 1 in 1,923.

Dreams & Nightmares Case odds by rarity, with per-item odds and the cheapest item in each tier
RarityTier oddsItems in tierOdds per item1 inCheapest in tier
Mil-Spec79.92%711.4171%9$0.05
Restricted15.98%53.196%31$0.48
Classified3.20%31.0667%94$5.04
Covert0.64%20.32%313$51.50
★ Knife0.26%300.0087%11,538$36.80

Tier odds are Valve's published rates. Odds per item assume equal weighting within a tier, which Valve hasn't confirmed. 1 in 10 drops is StatTrak™.

About the Dreams & Nightmares Case

The Dreams & Nightmares Case was released in January 2022 with skins chosen from Valve's Halloween skinmaker contest. All 17 skins were designed by the community around the theme of dreams and nightmares.

It is popular for three reasons. It has a cheap, liquid AK-47 Covert (the Nightwish), its Butterfly Knife is one of the most wanted knives in the game, and it sits in the weekly drop pool, so most players own one.

Its skins form The Dreams & Nightmares Collection. Trade-ups within that collection stay inside these 17 skins and, since 2025, can reach its knives.

Current CS2 drop pool ›

Released
January 2022
Skins
17
Knives
30
Key needed
Yes
StatTrak™
Yes
Weekly drop pool
Yes

Dreams & Nightmares Case questions

Can you still get the Dreams & Nightmares Case from weekly drops?

Yes. It is in the current weekly drop pool, so it can come in your weekly care package. Cases leave the pool when Valve rotates it, and prices usually rise once new copies stop arriving.

What is the rarest item in the Dreams & Nightmares Case?

Knives are the rarest drop, at 0.26% for any of the 30. Within those, rarity comes from finish and pattern: a Butterfly Knife | Gamma Doppler Emerald is the most valuable thing it can produce right now.

Why is the Dreams & Nightmares Case so popular?

It combines a cheap AK-47 Covert, the Butterfly Knife in its knife pool, community-made designs and weekly drop availability. That gives it some of the highest trading volume of any case.

Can you trade up to a Dreams & Nightmares Case knife?

Yes. Covert skins from The Dreams & Nightmares Collection can be traded up into one of the case's 30 knives, chosen at random.

Do Dreams & Nightmares skins come in StatTrak™?

Yes. Every skin and knife in the case can drop as StatTrak™, about 1 in 10 drops. Souvenirs are not case drops; eligible guns can also exist as Souvenir-O-Matic conversions.