Souvenir P90 | Emerald Dragon (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The recognisable part of this P90 is the pair of emerald dragons coiling along the stock and grip loop over a streaked grey finish. Minimal Wear keeps that picture practically whole, and any marks are tiny and sit on the outer edges. It gives nearly the same look as the cleanest grade with a little more tolerance for flaws.

Item type: smg. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

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.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The base of the P90 is a dark gunmetal grey with lighter brushed streaks running along the body. Green dragons with yellow-gold belly scales coil around the front grip loop, the lower body and the stock, and one dragon head with gold features and blue whiskers faces forward near the trigger area.

Small specks of wear may appear on the very bottom of the stock and the outer edge of the grip loop. The dragon head and the coils on the side of the body stay clean. At normal distance the gun is hard to tell apart from Factory New. Copies at the lower end of the grade look almost untouched.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir P90 | Emerald Dragon is 0.06–0.52; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (17% 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 P90 | Emerald Dragon belongs to The Bravo Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from Operation Bravo Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013).

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, green and holo stickers echo the dragon scales and suit this skin best. Placing them on the plain dark upper receiver keeps the dragon coils on the body and stock uncovered.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the grade, since low and high values of the same wear look noticeably different on the grip loop.
• Look at the edge of the front grip loop and the bottom of the stock, as these wear first.
• Inspect the dragon head near the trigger, which is the focal point of the artwork.
• Note any stickers or name tag, as they affect how the dragon artwork is framed.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want an almost clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter.
• A sensible near-clean alternative to Factory New.