Souvenir Five-SeveN | Nightshade (Field-Tested)

Skin overview

Nightshade is recognisable by its cream and red flowers scattered over a dark slide, framed by the steel-blue body of the pistol. In Field-Tested the print starts to break up along the top and edges of the slide, which gives the floral motif a slightly aged, handled character. The frame and grip still keep their even colour.

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.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Field-Tested

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.

Wear becomes visible along the top of the slide, its edges and around the muzzle, where parts of the floral print are scuffed through to metal. The red outlines start to break up on the most exposed flowers. At normal distance the pattern still reads as a floral slide with a lived-in look. The frame and grip are mostly clean, with only light marks on edges.

Field-Tested wear: float 0.15–0.38

The whole float range of Souvenir Five-SeveN | Nightshade is 0–0.5; Field-Tested takes the 0.15–0.38 segment (46% 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).

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.

Which stickers suit it

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 Field-Tested

• Players who like a slightly aged floral finish on a sidearm.
• Buyers who want the full colour scheme at a moderate cost.
• A practical everyday choice for regular play.