Souvenir Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Desert Eagle carries a dark stormy-sea pattern in teal, cyan and charcoal tones. At Minimal Wear the waves and swirls look practically intact, and any marks are small enough to stay out of sight in normal play. It keeps the clean metallic finish of the top grade at a lower entry point.

Item type: pistol. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The slide is covered in dark grey and black wave patterns with cyan highlights on the crests, and swirling cloud-like shapes run along its sides. The barrel tip and the front of the slide pick up the brightest teal tones from the metallic base.

Tiny scratches may appear on the very top edge of the slide and on the muzzle. The waves and the grip pattern remain clean. At normal viewing distance the difference from Factory New is hard to spot. The flat sides of the slide and the frame still look untouched.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm ranges from 0 to 0.75; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% 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 Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm belongs to The Rising Sun Collection, which holds 16 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

Price by quality

Among 6 skins of the Desert Eagle in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin is 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 teal, cyan, silver or dark blue blend with the stormy-sea palette. Holographic or foil stickers with cold tones work well on the dark slide, while a single bright accent near the front can stand out against the waves.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the clean end of a grade show fewer marks on the slide.
• Look at the top edge of the slide and the muzzle first, because these parts lose paint before anything else.
• Inspect the edges of the grip and the hammer on mid and lower grades to see how much bare metal shows.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag and decide whether they fit your plans for the pistol.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters who are fine with tiny edge marks that are hidden in game.
• Conclusion: a sensible balance between appearance and cost.