Souvenir M249 | Deep Relief (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin is easy to spot by its green topographic panels set against a dark olive body, with the lightest tones sitting on top of each layer. Minimal Wear keeps the contour drawing practically intact, and any marks are small enough to need a close inspection to notice. It gives nearly the same look as the cleanest grade at a lower condition tier.

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

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The barrel, receiver frame and small parts are kept in a dark olive-grey, which works as a frame for the coloured panels. The receiver side panels, the box magazine and the stock carry the main drawing: concentric contour lines in pale yellow, lime and deeper green that imitate stepped layers going inward, like a relief map.

Small specks may appear on the corners of the magazine box and the lower edge of the stock. The contour drawing itself stays intact and the gradient keeps its brightness. At normal viewing distance in game it is hard to tell apart from Factory New. Receiver panels and barrel look clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir M249 | Deep Relief is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir M249 | Deep Relief belongs to The Operation Broken Fang Collection, which holds 17 skins.

The source is Operation Broken Fang Case.

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

Gold, sand, olive and lime stickers echo the layered palette, while dark or black designs blend with the frame. Placing them on the receiver near the panels keeps the contour drawing on the box visible.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float position within the grade, since a low float in Field-Tested or Well-Worn noticeably reduces scratching on the box.
• Inspect the corners and edges of the magazine box first, as they are the most visible part in first-person view and wear earliest.
• Check the stock edges and receiver panels for paint loss on worn copies.
• Note any applied stickers or a name tag, and whether they suit the green palette.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters for whom tiny marks on box corners do not matter.
• Practically the same view in game at a more reasonable condition tier.