AWP | Dragon Lore (Field-Tested)

This is the AWP | Dragon Lore in Field-Tested (FT), and it is the working middle of the scale: the dragon is intact, the gilding on the edges already going. The AWP | Dragon Lore is bounded by 0.15 and 0.38 at this wear. Covert rank, The Cobblestone Collection, and no ordinary case ever held it.

What the AWP | Dragon Lore looks like in Field-Tested

The body is olive green, the barrel orange-gold in diamond scales that fade to dark metal. Receiver and handguard are olive under gold work, and the dragon on the left side is bright orange over a yellow glow. The stock is olive with gold plates and a pale panel. Only the barrel's front and the scope mount stay unpainted.

The dragon reads whole: head, open jaws, curling body. No lettering appears anywhere, and the ornament on the stock panel is too faint to resolve. Gilding leaves the raised edges first: the receiver top, the handguard lip, the butt plate, the barrel rings. The fine scales thin before the dragon does, since it lies on a flat panel. Field-Tested is that stage exactly.

Where the AWP | Dragon Lore came from

The AWP | Dragon Lore is Valve's own work, with no community submission attached. The AWP | Dragon Lore joined the game on July 1, 2014, when The Cobblestone Collection was added. Valve's text calls the artwork a knotwork dragon and signs off on 200 keys that could never unlock its secrets. The joke lands: no key opens a case holding it. The catalog number, 344, is among the oldest in the game.

What to check before buying

What to verify on the AWP | Dragon Lore listing before checkout:

• float, which decides more here than on most rifles;


• the scales along the barrel, first to thin;


• the stickers and name tag already applied to this AWP | Dragon Lore.

The artwork on the AWP | Dragon Lore is fixed, so float is the only lever on looks. Copies of the AWP | Dragon Lore between 0.15 and 0.38 range from nearly clean to visibly worn. Field-Tested covers about a third of the full scale, the widest grade here.

What the AWP | Dragon Lore costs in Field-Tested

Factory New asks close to twice this grade, Minimal Wear about two-fifths more. Below it the ladder flattens: Well-Worn is level, within a few cents, and Battle-Scarred only a quarter under — the money is in the two clean grades.

Among Covert AWP finishes one is dearer in this grade: Gungnir, by about a fifth. Then the gap — Medusa at around a third, The Prince a quarter, Desert Hydra a seventh.

Getting the AWP | Dragon Lore

No case drops it. Copies come from Cobblestone souvenir packages, ten in all, from Cologne 2014 through Boston 2018. You can craft the AWP | Dragon Lore instead: ten skins one tier below from this collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore exists. StatTrak does not, and never did.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Dragon Lore

Four slots, all landing on olive and gold. Gold and orange stickers disappear into the scales; white, black and cold blue hold their edges. The flat left side is also the dragon's, so a sticker there competes with the one thing anyone looks at.

Who this wear suits

Pick the Field-Tested AWP | Dragon Lore when one of these is true:

• the dragon matters and the gilded edges do not;


• the two clean grades are out of reach;


• the rifle is played with, not inspected.

Float is worth filtering on: near 0.15 the scales are almost whole, near 0.38 the edges have gone gray.