Souvenir MP9 | Pine (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This MP9 carries a single coat of muted pine green over the receiver, grips and stock, with the magazine and muzzle left dark. In Minimal Wear the colour is still uniform, and any marks are small enough to need a close look in the inspect view. It gives almost the same picture as the cleanest grade while usually costing less.

Item type: smg. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver, top rail, trigger guard, front vertical grip and pistol grip are all painted the same solid olive-pine green with a soft satin sheen. The folding stock is in a slightly darker green, while the magazine, muzzle and small controls stay dark grey and black.

Tiny marks may appear on the rail teeth and the front edge of the receiver near the muzzle. They are visible only when inspecting closely. At normal distance in game the skin looks the same as Factory New. Grips, stock and flat panels remain untouched.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir MP9 | Pine is 0–0.7; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% 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 Boreal Collection with 29 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.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 3rd of 9 skins Consumer Grade MP9 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

The plain green works well with olive, khaki, brown and black stickers for a military look, or with a single gold or white sticker as a contrast accent. Placements on the flat receiver side stand out best because there is no pattern competing with them.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since on a solid colour the amount of chipping is the only visible difference.
• Look at the rail teeth, receiver edges and grip ribs in the inspect view, as these lose paint first.
• The finish has no pattern, so there is no reason to pay extra for a particular seed.
• Check for applied stickers or a name tag, which change the look of such a plain skin noticeably.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-identical look to Factory New while usually paying less.
• Sticker crafters who are fine with tiny marks hidden on the rail.
• Conclusion: a sensible middle ground between condition and cost.