Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption (Minimal Wear)

The Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption in Minimal Wear (MW) covers floats from 0.07 to 0.15, which is 40% of a finish scale that stops at 0.20. It is a Classified pistol from The eSports 2013 Winter Collection. The finish comes in three wears, and MW costs about the same as Field-Tested and less than Factory New.

What the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption looks like in Minimal Wear

The camouflage is built from two shades of blue and near-black patches, all assembled from pixels of different sizes. One design covers the slide, the frame, the grip panels and the magazine, and it runs over the factory markings on the slide. The trigger and the screws are light metal. There is no rust anywhere in the finish.

In MW the scuffs are small. The slide edge, the trigger guard and the grip corners turn lighter, yet the pixels mostly still read. Wear is set at the drop, so every Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption keeps the float it dropped with.

Where the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption came from

The Steam Workshop has nothing to do with the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption, because Valve drew the artwork itself. The skin entered the game in December 2013. Valve's catalog lists the finish as number 231.

What to check before buying

Listings of the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption differ in three things:

• float: in this wear the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption spans 0.07 to 0.15;


• any name tag and stickers already on the gun;


• the pattern index, which sets the color layout.

A band as tight as 0.07 to 0.15 leaves little to separate one listing from another.

Pattern and color layout

csgoskins confirms pattern variation on this finish: the pattern index decides how the colors of the camouflage lie. Two Minimal Wear listings with the same float can therefore look different from each other.

Screenshots of a listing show where the dark and light areas fall, and the slide and the frame show the difference best.

What the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption costs in Minimal Wear

Set against Minimal Wear, the other wears of the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption stand like this:

• Factory New costs about 1.2 times more;


• Field-Tested costs practically the same, with a gap of under three percent.

Among Classified Desert Eagle finishes in MW, the skin is priced above Conspiracy, Kumicho Dragon, Eastern Enigma, Mecha Industries and Heat Treated, and below Hypnotic and Fennec Fox.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption

The main source is the eSports 2013 Winter Case, the case in which the finish first came out.

A trade-up contract takes ten skins of the rank below, Restricted, from any collections, and the result comes from the collection of one of the inputs. Filling all ten slots from The eSports 2013 Winter Collection is the player's choice, and it steers the result. That collection holds three Classified skins, so the Deagle comes up one time in three. From the Classified rank, a contract leads up to the Covert M4A4 | X-Ray.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption exists. No souvenir package carries this skin.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption

The camouflage has no large figures, so a sticker does not compete with the main element of the design. White, yellow and orange stickers stand out, while blue ones get lost.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption makes sense for three reasons:

• the pixels read almost clean, without the Factory New premium;


• the price sits level with Field-Tested, and the float is better;


• you want a blue Classified Deagle for a cool-palette loadout in CS2.