AK-47 | Wild Lotus (Well-Worn)

This is the AK-47 | Wild Lotus in Well-Worn (WW), the second-to-last step: edges rubbed through, blooms on the side panels intact. This wear means a float between 0.38 and 0.45. Covert rank, from The St. Marc Collection of Operation Shattered Web.

What the AK-47 | Wild Lotus looks like in Well-Worn

Two greens are at work: an emerald base and darker foliage over it. The blooms are red and pink-crimson, with berries between the buds. A peach-beige outline runs along the handguard bottom, magazine well and grip. The stock is green with a red flower of its own, the barrel dark brown, the gas tube ring and trigger brass.

Only the barrel, muzzle and front sight are unpainted. The centerpiece is a large red flower with a spiky pale center, set at the receiver's rear. There is no lotus in it: the model reads as passionflower and peony, while Valve's text describes an orange lotus on green.

In Well-Worn the scuffing turns continuous: the peach outline survives in fragments, the thin stems on the magazine spine are nearly gone, and the handguard edges lighten to metal. The blooms on the flat side panels hold, so the rifle still reads at range.

Where the AK-47 | Wild Lotus came from

The finish has no author: Valve drew it, with no Workshop submission behind it. The catalog of finishes carries it as number 724. The St. Marc Collection appeared on November 18, 2019, and this is its only Covert finish. It came with Operation Shattered Web, which Valve's note introduced among four new weapon collections.

What to check before buying

Three points matter:

• float: the spread is short, and listings at 0.38 and 0.45 differ little;


• the stickers on the body and a rename, if any;


• the screenshot: pale areas along the edges fall differently on every copy.

No lucky pattern can be pulled here: the flowers land the same on every copy.

What the AK-47 | Wild Lotus costs in Well-Worn

Against the other wears it stands like this:

• Factory New costs about two and a half times more;


• Minimal Wear almost twice as much;


• Field-Tested about a third more;


• Battle-Scarred about a quarter less.

Only Battle-Scarred stays cheaper, and the difference is slight.

Among Covert AK-47s it leads on price in Well-Worn too, first of twenty-four. The gap to second place is the shortest anywhere on the wear scale. Gold Arabesque in Well-Worn costs about two and a half times less; in the clean wears the difference reaches six to eight times. Fire Serpent is about seven times cheaper, Vulcan forty.

Getting the AK-47 | Wild Lotus

The collection came as a drop for time spent in the operation, and this skin never went into a case.

A trade-up works too: ten skins one tier down from the same collection, which here means ten MP9 | Wild Lily.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Wild Lotus exists in the plain version only: no StatTrak, no souvenir release.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Wild Lotus

Expensive stickers have no business on a scuffed base: worn metal eats their look. Small pale logos and yellow tones live with the green better than red and crimson, which vanish into the blooms. Flat room for a craft is left at the side panel center and the stock.

Who this wear suits

Buy this wear of the AK-47 | Wild Lotus when:

• you want the dearest Covert AK-47 in CS2 without paying clean-wear money;


• the skin is for play or a craft, where details go unexamined;


• the blooms on the side panels still read in this wear.

Stepping up to Field-Tested costs about a third more and buys a whole peach outline, invisible at range.