Collections are a selection of CS2 and CS:GO skins produced by Valve. A total of 47 collections have been released with the most recent being the Achroma and Harlequin collections which were released in January 2026 as part of the Premier Season 4 update.
Which CS2 Collections are dropping?
CS2 skin collections can be broken down into the following five categories:
- Active Prime Drop Collections - drop skins through the weekly drop scheme. The weekly drop scheme resets every Wednesday and will randomly award a player with a skin from one of the active collections or a random graffiti.
- Armory Collections - collections which are exclusively available to players holding an active Armory Pass. Note that some of these collections have since been discontinued (e.g. the Graphic Design Collection).
- Operation Collections - collections which were at one time or another exclusively available for the duration of one or more CS:GO operations.
- Inactive Collections - collections which no longer drop skins and can only be acquired via trading, trade-up contracts and purchasing from marketplaces.
- Discontinued Collections - similar to inactive collections, these collections have been explicitely marked as 'retired' or formed part of a limited time event.
Active Prime Drop Collections (Weekly Care Package)
The active collection drop pool which forms the Weekly Care Package was last changed in 2026 with the additions of Harlequin and Achroma. Previously, the drop pool had remain unchanged since 2025 with the introduction of Ascent, Boreal and Radiant.
Armory Collections
Armory Collections are available only to CS2 players who have purchased and activated an Armory Pass.
Players can spend 25 stars to receive the current limited edition skin from the Limited Edition Item collection. All other collections in the Armory cost 4 stars to receive a random skin.
Operation Collections
Operation Collections are available only to CS2 players who have purchased and activated an Operation Pass. The four exclusive collections introduced as part of Operation Riptide are the 2021 Mirage, 2021 Dust 2, 2021 Vertigo and 2021 Train collections.
Operation Riptide
A random skin from these collections could be purchased from the Operation Riptide store within the CS:GO game client using 4 stars.
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Operation
The 2021 Dust 2 Collection
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The 2021 Mirage Collection
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The 2021 Train Collection
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The 2021 Vertigo Collection
Operation Broken Fang
A random skin from these collections could be purchased from the Operation Broken Fang store within the CS:GO game client using 4 stars. Skins from these collections ceased to be available from the Operation Broken Fang store on 15 May 2021.
The Ancient collection is speculated to re-appear in a souvenir package at the next CS:GO major as the demolition map Ancient was added to the active duty map pool.
Operation Shattered Web
Operation Shatterd Web introduced three new CS:GO collections: Canals, Norse and St. Marc.
These collections were available for the duration of Operation Shattered Web from 18 November 2019 to 31 March 2020.
Operation Hydra, Operation Wildfire and Operation Bloodhound
Operations Hydra, Wildfire and Bloodhound would award CS:GO players who held an active operation pass, a random skin from one of the following collections: Cache, Chop Shop, Cobblestone, Gods and Monsters, Overpass and Rising Sun.
The Chop Shop, Gods and Monsters and Rising Sun collections were introduced at the beginning of Operation Bloodhound and continued to be used in subsequent operations before being discontinued on 13 November 2017 with the conclusion of Operation Hydra.
The Overpass and Cache collections continue to be available as souvenir packages during CS:GO majors. The Cobblestone collection however, has not been available as a souvenir package since the end of ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018.
These collections would drop skins through the weekly drop scheme instead of the Active Collection drop pool only to those players who have the current CS:GO operation pass.
In-active Collections
In-active Collections are not available through the weekly drop scheme. The skins from these collections can only be acquired by:
- Trading up using trade-up contracts
- Opening souvenir packages (for collections which have souvenir variants)
- Trading with other players
- Purchasing from a marketplace (Steam Community Market or third-party marketplaces)
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Inactive
The Ancient Collection
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Inactive
The Anubis Collection
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Inactive
The Assault Collection
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Inactive
The Aztec Collection
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Inactive
The Baggage Collection
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Inactive
The Bank Collection
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Inactive
The Cache Collection
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Inactive
The Canals Collection
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Inactive
The Chop Shop Collection
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Inactive
The Cobblestone Collection
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The Control Collection
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Inactive
The Dust Collection
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Inactive
The Gods and Monsters Collection
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The Havoc Collection
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Inactive
The Inferno Collection
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The Italy Collection
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Inactive
The Lake Collection
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Inactive
The Militia Collection
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Inactive
The Mirage Collection
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Inactive
The Norse Collection
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Inactive
The Nuke Collection
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Inactive
The Office Collection
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Inactive
The Overpass Collection
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Inactive
The Rising Sun Collection
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The St. Marc Collection
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The Train Collection
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The Vertigo Collection
Discontinued Collections
Discontinued Collections (also known as Retired Collections) do not drop at all making it impossible to acquire any of the skins from these collections except through trading, trade-up contracts or marketplaces.
For a collection to be deemed 'discontinued', it must have been explictely marked by Valve as either 'retired' (e.g. the Graphic Design Collection) or a limited time event (e.g. the Blacksite Collection). All other collections which are not currently dropping are deemed to be 'inactive' due to the possiblity of Valve re-instating these collections in the future.
The Blacksite Collection was only available during the first few weeks of the launch of the Dangerzone game-mode and the skin within this collection cannot be traded-up to via the trade-up contract.
Which CS2 Collections can skins still be obtained from?
* Skins unboxed from souvenir packages will be in souvenir quality and cannot be used in Trade-up Contracts.
Collection Drop Probability
| Rarity | Probability |
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| Consumer | 79.92% |
| Industrial | 15.98% |
| Mil-spec | 3.2% |
| Restricted | 0.64% |
| Classified | 0.128% |
| Covert | 0.0256% |
Release Date
There is no pattern in the release date for skin collections. For the past few years Valve has released between three and four new collections for operations Shattered Web, Broken Fang and Riptide. The last collections to be released and made available to all CS:GO players is the 2018 Inferno and 2018 Nuke collections which are currently used in the weekly drop pool.
| Year | Collections | Total |
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| 2025 | Ascent, Boreal, Radiant, Train 2025 | 4 |
| 2024 | Graphic Design, Overpass 2024, Sport & Field, Limited Edition Item | 4 |
| 2023 | Anubis | 1 |
| 2022 | None released | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021 Dust 2, 2021 Mirage, 2021 Train, 2021 Vertigo | 4 |
| 2020 | Ancient, Control, Havoc | 3 |
| 2019 | Canals, Norse, St. Marc | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018 Inferno, 2018 Nuke, Blacksite | 3 |
| 2017 | None released | 0 |
| 2016 | None released | 0 |
| 2015 | Chop Shop, Gods and Monsters, Rising Sun | 3 |
| 2014 | Bank, Baggage, Cobblestone, Overpass, Cache | 5 |
| 2013 | Assault, Aztec, Dust, Dust 2, Inferno, Italy, Lake, Militia, Mirage, Nuke, Office, Safehouse, Train, Vertigo | 14 |