AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) is the second wear of the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel, one step below Factory New. Copies in this wear carry floats from 0.07 up to 0.15. The skin is Covert rank and belongs to the Operation Vanguard Weapon Case.

What the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel looks like in Minimal Wear

The base is painted a faded sand. The dust cover and magazine are almost black, with white spray-paint strokes laid over them. The grip is olive-sand with pale red smears, and the barrel, gas block and front sight stay bare metal with a rusty tint. On the side of the receiver, under the graffiti, there is a small dark inscription that cannot be read.

In Minimal Wear the white layer along the edge of the cover is still unbroken, while on the ribs of the magazine it has begun to thin. The sandy base is simply dirtier than in Factory New, but it has no bare patches.

Where the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel came from

SA_22 submitted the finish to the Steam Workshop as "Tribute AK47" on October 23, 2014.

The Vanguard Collection shipped on November 11, 2014, and the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel arrived in the same update. The next day Valve launched Operation Vanguard, with free access to six community maps and a campaign of missions. The finish carries catalog number 380 in Valve's files.

What to check before buying

Two things count when you choose a listing:

• float: the graffiti is almost whole near the bottom of the band, and by 0.15 bare spots show along the edges;


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

The pattern index changes nothing on the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel. The 0.07 to 0.15 band is tight, so the extreme listings differ only by the number. This wear covers 12% of the finish's float scale.

What the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel costs in Minimal Wear

Against Minimal Wear, the other wears compare as follows:

• Factory New is priced about five times higher;


• Field-Tested comes in about a tenth lower;


• Well-Worn sits almost even;


• Battle-Scarred is about an eighth lower.

The three lower wears sit side by side and the price hardly moves between them. A real premium appears only at the last step, up to Factory New.

Among Covert AK-47s, AK-47 | The Empress, AK-47 | Jaguar and AK-47 | The Oligarch cost more, while AK-47 | Neon Rider and AK-47 | Nightwish cost less. AK-47 | Aphrodite is the cheapest of the group and AK-47 | Wild Lotus the most expensive; next to the Wild Lotus, this skin costs about a hundred and twenty times less.

Getting the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel

A trade-up contract for the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel takes ten Classified skins, for example P250 | Cartel, SCAR-20 | Cardiac and XM1014 | Tranquility. If all ten are from this collection, it has two Covert skins, so the odds of landing this one are one in two.

The Operation Vanguard Weapon Case is the second route. The float of a skin that comes out of a contract depends on the inputs.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel exists in a StatTrak version. Souvenir packages were never issued for it, since they covered only collections of tournament maps. Even so, you can get a Souvenir copy: the Souvenir-O-Matic converts an ordinary skin from your inventory, adding gold event stickers and a player's autograph.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Wasteland Rebel

The dark cover accepts light stickers, but the white strokes next to them fight with white ones. Gold and red read better against the dark ground. Dark and green stickers belong on the sandy handguard. There is room for a craft on the magazine and the handguard, and the cover with the graffiti is best left open.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a sound buy if:

• you want the graffiti on the cover nearly whole, without a fivefold surcharge;


• you need a CS2 rifle that looks close to factory fresh;


• you are collecting the finish alongside other Covert skins.

Lower on the scale the price barely falls while the graffiti loses strokes. Here the white paint still holds its shape and costs less than it does in Factory New.