Souvenir Desert Eagle | Starcade (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin pairs a glittering deep blue slide with a warm orange-to-purple grip striped in cyan, giving the pistol a neon arcade look. In Minimal Wear the flake paint still looks intact from the player's view, and any marks sit on the very edges where they are hard to spot. It keeps nearly the full look of the cleanest grade at a more relaxed level of condition.

Item type: pistol. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The slide and barrel are painted deep blue-violet with a dense metallic flake that sparkles across the whole surface. Toward the rear of the slide the base is crossed by diagonal bands of teal, green and red, with a red stripe near the hammer and a small red marking at the front.

Small specks may appear on the muzzle and the sharpest edges of the slide. The stripes and the grip gradient remain fully intact. In first-person view the difference from Factory New is hard to notice. The grip, frame and magazine base usually still look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Desert Eagle | Starcade 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

The skin’s collection is The Graphic Design Collection with 16 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

By price this skin is 6th of 7 skins Classified Desert Eagle in this quality (the first being 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

Holo and foil stickers in cyan, purple or red pick up the metallic flake and the stripe colours. Placements on the blue section of the slide stand out best, while stickers near the teal bands blend into the design.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the float position within the grade, since a lower value keeps the slide edges and muzzle cleaner.
• Inspect the muzzle, top of the slide, grip corners and magazine base, as these lose paint first.
• Check applied stickers and any name tag, and on Souvenir copies review the pre-applied stickers.
• Compare screenshots in the inspect view, because the metallic flake can hide or exaggerate small scratches depending on lighting.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look in first-person view.
• Buyers who accept tiny edge specks in exchange for a softer requirement on condition.
• A sensible near-Factory-New option.