Souvenir Desert Eagle | Mint Fan (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin is easy to recognise by its busy teal-and-brown fan motif, which gives the large pistol a soft, patterned look rather than a single colour. Minimal Wear keeps the overall picture practically intact, with only faint marks on the sharpest edges. It costs less than the cleanest grade while looking almost the same in hand.

Item type: pistol. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The slide, frame and barrel are covered in a halftone pattern of overlapping fan shapes in mint teal and pale tan, separated by a dark brown base that also fills the gaps between the fans. The barrel section seen through the ejection port and the top of the slide stay solid brown, while the hammer, slide stop and backstrap pick up a lighter mint tone.

Faint scuffs may appear on the muzzle and the very front edge of the slide. The rest of the slide, the frame and the grip panel stay clean. At normal viewing distance the difference from Factory New is hard to spot, as the dense pattern hides these small marks.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Desert Eagle | Mint Fan ranges from 0 to 0.6; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 13% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

The skin’s collection is The Ascent Collection with 28 skins in total. 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 11 skins of the Desert Eagle in the Mil-Spec 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, mint, cream or brown tones blend with the fan pattern, while gold or copper accents work well against the brown base. Placing stickers on the rear of the slide keeps the most visible part of the pattern open.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within its wear range, since copies near the upper end of a grade show more rubbing on the slide front.
• Look at the muzzle, slide edges and hammer on the inspect screen, as these parts lose colour first.
• Souvenir versions exist, so check whether the copy carries souvenir stickers and whether they suit you.
• Review any applied stickers and name tag, because they stay with the item.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters, as the faint edge marks do not affect sticker areas.
• Conclusion: almost the same look as Factory New at a lower cost.