On the Survival Knife (weapon_knife_canis), Tiger Tooth is one of those legendary finishes you spot from across a lobby. Valve describes it as orange-yellow electroplating paired with hand etching over a tiger-stripe motif—multicolor anodizing that reads loud in inspect and flip animations without breaking how CS knives are supposed to look in metal and light.

<i>Rare as a tiger… deadly as a tiger…</i>

If you want a showpiece that still feels “official,” this is the lane: high contrast, clean stripe language, and a wear band so tight that almost every listing lives in Factory New or Minimal Wear territory.

Release

Tiger Tooth went live on March 31, 2025, aligned with the Spring Forward beat and entering the usual unbox and drop path through the Fever Case. If you were watching knife drops around late March 2025, this Canis Tiger Tooth was among the sharper visual updates in that wave—orange heat on a compact blade profile.

Designer

The finish is Valve-authored workshop-adjacent official art, not a standalone Community Workshop submission skin. Stripe placement, plating stacks, and how the pattern holds up at gameplay viewing distance were tuned on the dev side, which keeps the look closer to first-party knife aesthetics than meme-forward community finishes.

What defines the skin

• Weapon: knife (Survival Knife, weapon_knife_canis)
• Finish: Tiger Tooth (internal an_tiger_orange)
• Rarity: legendary
• Style: anodized multicolor
• Wear: 0.00 ~ 0.08

Multicolor anodizing pushes orange and yellow over the base metal so spins in inspect pick up depth—highlights roll, shadows bite, and the blade feels less “flat sticker” than a single-tone coat. Hand etching adds fine line work on top of the tiger bands: from mid distance you get predator stripes; up close you still see craftsman texture. With wear capped at 0.08, float choices matter disproportionately—Factory New versus the top of Minimal Wear often shows up as plating haze, tip and spine scuffs, and small shifts in how mirror-bright the orange reads. Thumbnails lie; buy off in-game inspect.

What to look for when buying

Stripe placement on inspect. The Canis blade isn’t a cinema screen—surface area is limited. Whether stripes feel continuous and whether the orange/yellow mass sits where your default hold angle shows it will dominate day-to-day satisfaction. Spin at your usual viewmodel angle and check that the main color block isn’t parked on an edge you hate when running or switching.

Wear inside 0.0–0.08. In this window, “slightly used” usually means electroplate fogging and honest wear at tip and spine rather than wide body scratches. If you want glassy orange, chase lower float; if you tolerate light use marks, still verify the highlight zones stay clean—those are what sell the tiger read in motion.

Pairing and where to shop. Legendary knife finishes get a lot of inspect screen time; Tiger Tooth’s orange punch is built for players who want instant recognition. Compare same-wear listings on Steam Community Market or C5GAME and pay attention to pattern bias, not just float. Event and case availability shifts with patches—confirm what’s actually obtainable before you commit. Hold the official tiger-plated look in your own hands, and the line Rare as a tiger… deadly as a tiger… finally lands as more than flavor text.