AK-47 | Midnight Laminate (Factory New)

The Factory New (FN) AK-47 | Midnight Laminate is an iridescent purple without a single scuff. Its float runs from 0.00 to 0.07. The skin is Restricted, belongs to the Ascent Collection and has never been in a case. It is the most expensive Restricted skin in the collection, and the gap to its neighbor in rank is fourfold.

What the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate looks like in Factory New

The paint follows the material of each part. The wood (handguard, stock, grip and magazine) is dark purple with cherry-colored veins running through its layers; the metal (receiver, top cover and gas tube) is blue-teal. There is no applied artwork at all: the pattern comes from the texture of the plywood layers themselves, and on the stock the veins close into rings.

A finish like this lives on the cleanliness of its coating, so Factory New counts for more here than on graphic finishes. In this wear the stock corners and handguard edge are still dark, without a pinkish-gray haze, and the receiver shows no bare metal along its ribs. Those are the places that tell it apart from the next step down.

What to check before buying

Two things get checked on an AK-47 | Midnight Laminate:

• float within the band: near the upper limit the shimmer on the edges is already muted;


• the stickers on the listing, and the name tag.

Pattern index has no effect on price, since the coating is the same on every copy.

The stretch from 0.00 to 0.07 is narrow, so differences between listings in this wear are almost unreadable.

What the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate costs in Factory New

Factory New of the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate costs several times as much as the other wears:

• Minimal Wear is cheaper by about half;


• Field-Tested falls about five times lower;


• Well-Worn is about four times cheaper, and still costs more than Field-Tested;


• Battle-Scarred costs about five and a half times less.

That happens with plain-color skins that have no artwork: the buyer pays for an even coating. Well-Worn costs more than Field-Tested because of band width. Field-Tested covers about a third of the wear scale, Well-Worn less than a tenth.

Getting the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate

The AK-47 | Midnight Laminate is in no case: the Ascent Collection is a map collection, and copies are handed out as a weekly reward for time played. The collection became part of CS2 on March 31, 2025.

The rifle can also be built by trade-up. Ten Mil-Spec skins from this collection go in, for example P90 | Reef Grief, P2000 | Royal Baroque or MP9 | Cobalt Paisley. The result is one of the collection's two Restricted skins. The other is USP-S | Royal Guard, so the chance of landing the AK-47 is one in two. For Factory New, though, this barely works: the result inherits its wear from the inputs, and hitting a hundredth of the scale with a random trade-up is extremely hard.

One step up, ten Restricted skins give M4A1-S | Stratosphere, the collection's only Classified skin. The Midnight Laminate is not put into such contracts: it costs four times as much as its neighbor in rank, and USP-S | Royal Guard goes in instead.

StatTrak and Souvenir

No StatTrak version of the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate has been released. Souvenir copies do turn up, but there were no packages for this finish, since those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are put together through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which applies golden tournament stickers and a player autograph to a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate

An iridescent purple is a difficult background: it shifts its own shade, so stickers look different from different angles. White and silver hold steadiest. Yellow and gold give contrast but fight the shimmer. For an expensive craft in CS2, a clean Factory New is the natural choice, because the coating on it is even.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AK-47 | Midnight Laminate in this wear makes sense if:

• you want an even shimmer with no matte patches on the edges;


• you are preparing a base for an expensive craft;


• you are putting together a Terrorist-side set in blue and violet for CS2.

The drawback is plain: the premium over Minimal Wear is double, and in a match the shimmer looks the same. For playing, it is more sensible to take the step below.