Souvenir AUG | Tom Cat (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The rifle keeps its calm gunmetal look, with gold markings and the cat on the stock as the main points of interest. Minimal Wear adds at most faint marks on sharp edges, which are hard to spot without zooming in. It gives nearly the same picture as Factory New at a lower grade.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

Gunsmith: several techniques combined on one item; some parts rub off, others only dull.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver, handguard and stock are covered in a dark grey-blue gunmetal tone with fine panel lines across the surface. Yellow-gold highlights sit on the handguard, on the upper side of the stock and at the base of the foregrip, alongside small arrow markings pointing towards the rear.

Tiny marks may appear on the sharpest edges of the magazine and handguard. The yellow accents and the cat artwork stay intact. At normal viewing distance the rifle is practically indistinguishable from Factory New. The stock and receiver surfaces remain clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AUG | Tom Cat is 0–0.8; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (10% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir AUG | Tom Cat belongs to The Prisma 2 Collection, which holds 17 skins.

The source is Prisma 2 Case.

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, yellow and black stickers match the highlights and the gunmetal base. Placing them along the receiver or handguard keeps the cat on the stock visible, while dark or holo stickers suit the subdued tone of the finish.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since lower values keep the yellow accents and edges cleaner.
• Inspect the rear of the stock to see how well the cat artwork has held up.
• Look at the handguard edges, the magazine and the foregrip, as these parts lose paint first.
• Check for applied stickers or a name tag and decide whether they fit what you want from the rifle.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters, since the faint marks rarely affect a craft.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.