Souvenir Negev | Phoenix Stencil (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Mil-Spec Negev carries a warm, crowded pattern of Phoenix graffiti tags over its body and box magazine. At Minimal Wear the print looks practically intact, and any marks hide among the overlapping tags. It keeps the clean look while usually costing less than the top grade.

Item type: machinegun. 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.

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver, top cover, carrying handle and pistol grip are wrapped in overlapping Phoenix Connexion graffiti tags in rust red, orange, gold and black. The box magazine carries the same dense print, with darker brown areas and gold lettering around its flat side panel.

Tiny scuffs may appear on the sharpest corners of the box magazine and the receiver. They are hard to spot because the busy pattern masks them. In game the skin looks the same as Factory New at normal distance. The top cover, grip and stock print remain intact.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir Negev | Phoenix Stencil is 0–0.65; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (12% 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 Negev | Phoenix Stencil belongs to The Havoc Collection, which holds 19 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

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, orange, gold or black blend with the graffiti and keep the crowded street-art look. Holo or gold stickers placed on the receiver stand out against the darker tags, while a plain dark sticker near the stock keeps the pattern from looking overloaded.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the wear range, since the box magazine edges and receiver corners show the difference first.
• Look at the stock edges and grip on Field-Tested and worse copies, where bare metal spreads quickly.
• Souvenir copies exist, so check whether the item carries souvenir stickers if that matters to you.
• Check applied stickers and any name tag, as they change how the busy pattern reads.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a clean look in game without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters, since tiny scuffs disappear in the busy pattern.
• Conclusion: nearly the Factory New look at a more sensible cost.