Souvenir AK-47 | Frontside Misty (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The rifle is recognisable by its icy cyan receiver and the white tribal-style swirls running over a near-black body. In Minimal Wear the overall picture is practically unchanged, and any marks sit on the very edges where they are hard to spot. It keeps the fresh look of the top grade while leaving a little more room in the budget.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

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

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver is painted bright cyan with dark inserts and white swirling ornament, and cyan lines also run along the rear sight area and the top of the barrel. The handguard and gas tube are dark charcoal covered with large white curls outlined in black.

Tiny marks may appear on the lower curve of the magazine and the sharp edges of the receiver. The cyan panels and the white ornament on the handguard and stock remain clean. At normal viewing distance in game the rifle is almost indistinguishable from Factory New. Lower floats in this grade look practically untouched.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AK-47 | Frontside Misty is 0.02–0.87; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (9% 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

The skin’s collection is The Shadow Collection with 16 skins in total.

The source is Shadow Case (on sale since Sep 15, 2015).

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline, Field-Tested — 1.9× cheaper. Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 13 skins of the AK-47 in the Classified grade and this quality, this skin ranks 9th 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.

Stickers and crafts

Stickers in cyan, white, silver or holo-blue tones blend naturally with the arctic palette. Black and white designs work well on the dark handguard and stock without breaking the swirl ornament. Placements along the receiver suit bolder accents, while warm colours such as red or orange create a strong deliberate contrast.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since copies at the clean end of a range look noticeably better.
• Inspect the magazine curve and the receiver edges first, as they are the first places where this finish loses paint.
• Look at the screenshot or in-game preview of the stock, where scratches on the white curls are easy to miss in a small image.
• Review applied stickers and any name tag, as they change the look and may not suit the cyan and white scheme.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-flawless look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters who accept tiny edge marks that are hard to see in game.
• Conclusion: almost the same picture as Factory New at a softer cost.