AK-47 | Nightwish (Minimal Wear)

The AK-47 | Nightwish in Minimal Wear (MW) shows light wear on its neon artwork. The float band for this wear runs from 0.07 to 0.15. It is a Covert skin from the Dreams & Nightmares Collection.

What the AK-47 | Nightwish looks like in Minimal Wear

The base of the finish is dark purple, with spirals in neon colors running across it: pink, yellow and light blue. The spirals cover the handguard, the magazine and the stock. In the center of the receiver a light blue animal head glows.

Valve's description says the finish shows a deer and dream catchers in neon colors with a pearlescent effect laid over them. The author's own title for it was "Nightwish [Pearlescent]".

Within 0.07 to 0.15 there is no better copy to hunt for. The band takes 0.08 of the finish's 1.00 scale, or 8%.

Where the AK-47 | Nightwish came from

The author is Nextgenz, who filed the Steam Workshop submission on October 12, 2021. Valve's note on the release of the Dreams & Nightmares Case says seventeen finishes selected from the Workshop went into it. The AK-47 | Nightwish came out on January 21, 2022, together with the Dreams & Nightmares Collection. Its number in Valve's catalog is 1141.

What to check before buying

In an AK-47 | Nightwish listing, these parameters are worth checking:

• float: the 0.07 to 0.15 band is short, and the number shows where in it the copy sits;


• the head on the receiver, which is the center of the artwork;


• a name tag and stickers, which stay with the listing.

There is no choosing by pattern here, as such.

What the AK-47 | Nightwish costs in Minimal Wear

The other wears relative to Minimal Wear:

• Factory New runs to roughly 1.6 times the price;


• Field-Tested is a few percent cheaper;


• Well-Worn is about 12% cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is about 16% cheaper.

Among Covert AK-47 skins in this wear, the finish sits in the bottom quarter of a row of twenty-four: six skins are cheaper, seventeen are more expensive. The nearest above is the AK-47 | Neon Rider, the nearest below the AK-47 | Aquamarine Revenge.

Getting the AK-47 | Nightwish

The Dreams & Nightmares Case is the finish's only source; no other case holds it.

Ten skins of the rank below from this collection turn into the AK-47 | Nightwish in a contract. A Covert skin is also raw material for a knife craft, which takes five Covert skins of one collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is a StatTrak version of the AK-47 | Nightwish. No Souvenir packages were released for this finish, since those were made only for the tournament map collections. A Souvenir copy can still be built by hand: the Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Nightwish

The finish is variegated, and the spiral pattern takes up nearly the whole surface. Pink, yellow and light blue stickers repeat the spiral colors, and white ones also show well against the dark purple.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a sensible pick for the AK-47 | Nightwish when:

• you want a bright neon AK with light wear, for playing CS2;


• the 0.08 spread of the float band makes no difference to you;


• you do not want to pay the Factory New premium, which is 1.6 times.