Souvenir AK-47 | Fire Serpent (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Fire Serpent pairs a bright green serpent on the receiver with the rifle's natural wood furniture and a dark teal magazine covered in swirling motifs. In Minimal Wear the artwork stays almost intact, and any marks are small and sit on edges. For most buyers it reads as clean as Factory New in game while costing less effort to find.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver carries the main artwork: a green serpent body with yellow and gold bands coiling along its length, ending in a fanged head with a red eye at the front near the handguard. Gold ornamental shapes sit towards the rear of the receiver, set against dark grey metal.

Small specks may appear on the receiver edges and the lower front of the magazine. The serpent head, the body and the gold ornaments remain intact. In game the difference from Factory New is hard to notice unless the rifle is inspected up close. Low-float copies look practically clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AK-47 | Fire Serpent is 0.06–0.76; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir AK-47 | Fire Serpent belongs to The Bravo Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from Operation Bravo Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013).

What it costs in each quality

Among 20 skins of the AK-47 in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 5th by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Gold, green and red stickers match the serpent's palette and the red eye. Placements along the receiver above the serpent body keep the head near the handguard visible, while dark or holo stickers sit well against the grey metal sections.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float position within the grade, since the serpent's outline and magazine change noticeably between low and high floats.
• Inspect the serpent's head near the handguard, as it is the focal point of the design.
• Check the front and bottom of the magazine, which lose paint first.
• Note any stickers, name tag and whether the copy is StatTrak™ or Souvenir.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look in game without hunting for the narrow top grade.
• Sticker crafts where tiny edge marks do not matter.
• A balanced pick between appearance and availability.