Souvenir Five-SeveN | Nightshade (Factory New)

Skin overview

Five-SeveN | Nightshade pairs a dark charcoal slide covered in a pale floral print with a muted slate-blue frame. In Factory New the flowers keep their cream fill and thin red outlines, and the large bloom near the muzzle reads sharply against the dark metal. This is the grade for buyers who want the Arts and Crafts pattern exactly as painted.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

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. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

Appearance in Factory New

The slide is dark charcoal grey with a hydrographic floral print: a large pale bloom with a red outline near the muzzle and smaller cream flowers and leaves running back toward the rear sight. The accessory rail under the barrel carries the same dark patterned finish.

The print is complete: every flower keeps its cream fill and red outline, and the dark slide has no bare spots. The slate-blue frame and grip are perfectly even in tone. In game the large bloom near the muzzle is the first detail that catches the eye. Everything, including the rail and the slide edges, looks clean.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir Five-SeveN | Nightshade is 0–0.5; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (14% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The eSports 2013 Winter Collection with 12 skins in total.

The source is eSports 2013 Winter Case (on sale since Jul 9, 2014).

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 6th of 10 skins Mil-Spec Grade Five-SeveN 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

Stickers in cream, dusty pink, muted red or dark blue match the floral print and the slate frame. Placing them on the plain blue frame keeps the slide pattern uncluttered, while small pale stickers on the slide can blend in with the flowers.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear, since the slide top and edges show the difference first.
• Look at the large flower near the muzzle, as it is the main focal point and wears early on more used copies.
• Note that the float range stops early, so Battle-Scarred copies look milder than the name suggests.
• Check applied stickers and name tags, since they change the look of the plain blue frame.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the floral print with every outline intact.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean base for a matching palette.
• The choice for a flawless look on a CT pistol.