AWP | Gungnir (Battle-Scarred)

Battle-Scarred is the most rubbed rendering of this finish and the cheapest way into it. The wear sits between 0.45 and 0.60. The rifle's float scale stops at 0.60, so the bottom condition gets a quarter of the range instead of the usual tail to 1.00. The rank is Covert, and the collection is Norse.

What the AWP | Gungnir looks like in Battle-Scarred

The finish is two halves: a pale ivory front and a blue rear under a dark braided knot. Spirals and runes are carved along the barrel, the braid closer to the receiver. Glossy blue covers the pistol grip and optic mounts, the bipod and magazine are pale bone, and a light blue collar with a rune stands at the muzzle. The scope is brass and bone.

The truncated scale shapes the look here. Even the worst copy never reaches the state where an ordinary skin loses its artwork. The bone is warm gray almost throughout, carving on the barrel and handguard ribs is broken, the butt plate rubbed smooth. The knot on the blue side comes through whole, sunk into the surface beyond wear's reach. From three paces this wear and the clean ones differ only in the pale half's shade.

Where the AWP | Gungnir came from

The artwork belongs to Valve: no Workshop entry, no outside artist, catalog number 756. The Norse set reached CS:GO on November 19, 2019 with Operation Shattered Web, paid out for completing missions. Valve has never put a case behind the collection, then or since.

What to check before buying

At this wear the question is evenness, not cleanliness:

• the float inside 0.45 to 0.60, the gray on the bone densest at the upper edge;


• the look of the pale half, which sets the impression a copy makes;


• Stickers and an applied name from a previous owner.

Within so tight a band copies are nearly identical. One pattern covers the run, and rare artwork variants do not exist.

What the AWP | Gungnir costs in Battle-Scarred

This is the skin's most affordable condition. Factory New asks about three fifths more, Minimal Wear about two fifths, Field-Tested only a handful of percent. The step between the bottom two wears is the smallest on this rifle, grayer bone and all.

Among Covert AWPs in Battle-Scarred this is the dearest, with the AWP | Dragon Lore about a fifth behind. The Prince and Medusa are nearly four times cheaper, Desert Hydra about seven times.

Getting the AWP | Gungnir

The first route is a finished listing in the wear you want, the usual choice at the bottom of the scale. The second is a contract on ten skins a rank below. Norse holds one Restricted skin, the Negev | Mjölnir, so with all ten from it the outcome is settled in advance.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Gungnir

No StatTrak version of the AWP | Gungnir was ever released, and no Souvenir packages were made for this finish either: packages only ever covered 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 a normal skin from the inventory. That is why the odd souvenir copy turns up where no package was ever made.

Worn bone makes a calmer background than the clean conditions, so a bright sticker on the handguard clashes less with the carving. The blue side with the knot is usually left alone: that pattern is the finish's main element. Nothing comes off without a trace, so the spot is chosen in advance.

Who this wear suits

The bottom condition is justified when:

• the cheapest entry into the finish is the point, not the body's state;


• the rifle is headed for CS2 matches, where nobody studies bone shades;


• the rubbed look is acceptable, and the 0.60 cutoff keeps it from getting worse.

A few percent between this and Field-Tested makes the choice a matter of taste, not money. Everything else the two conditions share: artwork, rank and a closed source.