Souvenir Desert Eagle | Mudder (Factory New)

Skin overview

Desert Eagle | Mudder is an Industrial Grade hydrographic finish that covers the whole pistol in a sandy, marbled pattern with dark brown blotches. In Factory New the marbling is complete from muzzle to grip, and the contrast between the light tan base and the darker veins is at its sharpest. This is the cleanest version of a deliberately earthy, muted design.

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

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The entire pistol is covered in a light tan and khaki base with a marbled hydrographic pattern of dark brown and near-black blotches. On the slide the darker stains gather along the top and around the engraved lettering, while the frame and trigger guard carry softer, lighter marbling.

Factory New copies show the full marbled pattern with no visible scratches on the slide, frame or grip. The Factory New range for this skin is narrow, so copies sit close to the upper limit of cleanliness this finish allows. At normal distance the tan base looks smooth and the brown veins crisp. Everything, including the slide edges and the muzzle, looks clean.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The float of Souvenir Desert Eagle | Mudder ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Factory New quality covers 0.06–0.07 — 1% 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 Lake Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

Price by quality

Among 6 skins of the Desert Eagle in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 4th 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 brown, olive, gold or muted black fit the earthy marbling, especially along the side of the slide. Bright neon colours tend to clash with the dull tan base, while holo or gold stickers can give the sandy finish a subtle accent.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the chosen grade, since low and high copies of the same wear can look different on the slide.
• Inspect the top edge of the slide and the muzzle first, as wear on this hydrographic finish shows there earliest.
• The marbled pattern varies slightly between copies, so look at how the dark blotches fall on the slide if placement matters to you.
• Look at any applied stickers or name tag, and decide whether they add to or clash with the tan scheme.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest possible version of the finish.
• Sticker crafters who need an intact slide as a calm, neutral base.
• The choice for those who want Mudder looking exactly as designed.