AWP | Gungnir (Factory New)

AWP | Gungnir in Factory New (FN) is the most expensive rifle in CS2: of nineteen Covert AWP finishes not one costs more, Dragon Lore included. The rank is Covert, and no case contains the AWP | Gungnir.

What the AWP | Gungnir looks like in Factory New

The barrel is creamy ivory, carved with spiral notching and runic signs as if cut into bone or wood. The receiver is deep pearlescent blue, its knotwork not gold but engraving a shade darker than the blue. Bipod and magazine are ivory with carved rings, and a pale blue collar with a curl sits at the muzzle. The subject is Odin's spear, hence the name.

Two colors in practice, pearlescent blue and ivory, with muted brass on the scope turrets a distant third. No dark field exists: blue holds the rear half, light bone the front, the border crossing the receiver.

In this grade the engraved knot reads down to its smallest interlacing and the barrel notching is unbroken. Lower grades differ there: the gloss on the blue dies back along the edges and the light bone grays.

Where the AWP | Gungnir came from

Valve drew the finish itself, and its catalog number is 756. The rifle entered the game on November 19, 2019 with Operation Shattered Web: the announcement listed four new sets — Norse, St. Marc, Canals and Shattered Web — whose items were earned as rewards. The Norse collection was never packed into cases.

The rest follows. The operation ended long ago and its rewards are no longer handed out, reward collections never get a StatTrak version, and no Souvenir packages were made for Norse. The source is shut completely.

What to check before buying

• the float: inside 0.00–0.07 the difference is slight, though at sums like these it gets examined anyway;


• the state of the engraving on the receiver edges, where the blue gloss goes first;


• stickers and a rename, if the listing has them.

No pattern variations exist: the whole run is painted the same.

What the AWP | Gungnir costs in Factory New

The scale on this finish stops at 0.60, so Battle-Scarred occupies only 0.45–0.60. Minimal Wear is about an eighth cheaper, Field-Tested one and a half times, and Battle-Scarred comes to roughly sixty percent of this grade. The gap between the extremes is small: the payment is for the skin, not for a clean body.

Among Covert rifles the AWP | Gungnir in this grade stands above all nineteen. Only Dragon Lore runs close, within three percent. After that comes a cliff: Medusa is under half, The Prince about a quarter, Desert Hydra roughly a tenth.

Getting the AWP | Gungnir

A ready listing, and nothing else. The operation's rewards are gone. A contract is formally possible out of the collection's only Restricted skin, the Negev | Mjölnir, but ten nearly clean Negevs cost more than the rifle itself.

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.

The field is taken up by carving and filigree, so stickers argue with the artwork. At this level craft in CS2 is rarely attempted: a clean rifle is valued above any build, and a sticker cannot be removed without a trace.

Who this wear suits

Factory New makes sense when:

• an untouched copy is wanted, not a working rifle for CS2;


• the source is gone and the run will not grow;


• the carving and engraving must be whole, since lower down the edges go matte.

In play Factory New and Field-Tested read almost the same, and one costs half again as much. This is a purchase for a collection, not for matches.