Souvenir MAC-10 | Amber Fade (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin is easy to spot by its warm amber body set against a plain grey magazine, grip and olive sling. In Minimal Wear the gradient reads practically the same as on a fresh copy, with only tiny marks that are hard to find without zooming in. It is a sensible choice when the look matters but the top grade feels unnecessary.

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

Anodized Airbrushed: a coloured coating with an airbrushed design on top; the coating holds while the design fades with wear.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested and Well-Worn.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver carries the whole finish: golden yellow at the rear and top, warming into orange along the sides and shifting to a green tint near the front and around the barrel mount. The paint is transparent, so the chrome base gives the colours a metallic sheen.

Small specks may appear on the sharpest edges of the receiver and near the rear corners. In game they are practically invisible, and the fade reads like a factory-fresh one. The sides and top of the body keep full colour. Only close inspection shows the difference from Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir MAC-10 | Amber Fade ranges from 0 to 0.4; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 20% 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 Mirage Collection with 15 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Berlin 2019 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Mirage Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Mirage Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Mirage Souvenir Package

And 9 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

Price by quality

Among 6 skins of the MAC-10 in the Mil-Spec 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

Gold, holographic and warm orange stickers blend with the amber receiver, while dark or green stickers echo the front of the gradient. Placing stickers on the rear part of the receiver keeps the colour transition at the front visible.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end of a grade show less chrome on the edges.
• Look at the receiver edges and top ridges in the inspect screen, as these are the first places the paint wears through.
• Compare screenshots of several copies, because the balance of yellow, orange and green on the receiver can differ slightly.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag, as they change how the clean amber body looks.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-perfect look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters for whom tiny edge marks are not an issue.
• A balanced option that looks fresh in every match.