Souvenir MP9 | Ruby Poison Dart (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This is the MP9 with the frog-spot pattern in red, orange and purple metallic paint over a black base. Minimal Wear keeps almost the whole look of a fresh copy. Any marks are small and sit on edges, where the busy pattern hides them well.

Item type: smg. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

Other 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 receiver and handguard are covered in irregular red-orange spots, each ringed in black, with magenta and purple metallic paint between them. The same pattern continues onto the ribbed foregrip, where purple dominates, and onto the pistol grip, which mixes orange spots with magenta.

Light marks may appear on the top edge of the receiver and the tips of the grip ribs. They are small and mostly hidden inside the black outlines of the pattern. At normal distance in game the skin looks the same as Factory New. The large surfaces of the receiver, handguard and grips remain clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir MP9 | Ruby Poison Dart is 0–0.5; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (16% 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

The skin’s collection is The Falchion Collection with 16 skins in total.

The source is Falchion Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015).

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 red, magenta, purple or black match the frog-spot artwork, and holographic or foil stickers echo the metallic paint. Placements on the plain grey stock and magazine area stand out, while stickers on the receiver are best kept dark so they do not clash with the busy pattern.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low value inside Field-Tested or Well-Worn noticeably reduces scuffing on the edges.
• Inspect the top edge of the receiver and the grip ribs, as these parts lose paint first.
• Look at the pattern placement on the receiver, because the spot layout differs between copies and some show more red on the visible side.
• Check for applied stickers and a name tag, which can change how the copy looks.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-new look and accept small edge marks that are invisible in game.
• Crafters who want a clean base without paying for a perfect float.
• Conclusion: practically the Factory New look with a small compromise.