Souvenir AWP | Oni Taiji (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The rifle carries a dense, colourful scene of a samurai and Oni spirits that wraps the receiver and runs into a bright red stock. Minimal Wear keeps the colours almost untouched, with only fine marks that show up on close inspection rather than in a match. It reads as clean in hand while usually costing less than the top grade.

Item type: sniper rifle. 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.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver is covered with the main scene: a samurai figure and Oni demon faces drawn in orange, gold and red with blue accents and dark outlines. The stock continues the artwork in a strong red with demon imagery around the thumbhole and grip, while the long barrel is finished in plain dark purple, which makes the painted section stand out.

Small specks may appear on the edges of the stock and the corners of the receiver. The main scene and the demon faces remain fully readable. At normal viewing distance the rifle looks the same as a Factory New copy. Barrel, scope and the central artwork stay clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir AWP | Oni Taiji ranges from 0 to 0.5; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 16% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

Souvenir AWP | Oni Taiji belongs to The Operation Hydra Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from Operation Hydra Case.

Price by quality

Among 15 skins of the AWP in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 7th 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

Gold, red and orange stickers blend with the receiver art, while dark purple or black ones tie into the barrel colour. Placements toward the barrel side keep the samurai scene visible; holographic or foil gold stickers echo the gold accents of the painting.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since copies near the cleaner end look noticeably better.
• Inspect the stock edges, the thumbhole area and the receiver corners, as these lose paint first.
• Look at whether the demon faces on the receiver are scratched, since they carry the identity of the design.
• Check applied stickers and name tags, and whether they suit the warm palette or cover the main artwork.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a rifle that looks clean in game without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters who need intact artwork around their sticker placements.
• A sensible balance of looks and cost.