Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox (Minimal Wear)

The Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox in Minimal Wear (MW) is a Classified Desert Eagle with a fox on the slide and light wear along the edges. This wear covers a band of 0.07 to 0.15, which is 10% of the 0.00 to 0.80 scale. Either side can use it, and the collection is The 2021 Mirage Collection.

What the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox looks like in Minimal Wear

The base is orange-copper. A fox in olive and gray tones lies across the top of the barrel and slide, its edges picked out in turquoise. On the grip, turquoise and orange fold into ring patterns.

Minimal Wear shows thin light marks on the sharpest edges: the trigger guard, the ridge of the slide and the corners of the grip. The artwork still reads as a whole, and the fox on the slide keeps its outline. With a band as narrow as 0.07 to 0.15, listings differ little to the eye.

What to check before buying

On the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox it makes sense to compare these points:

• float: the band of 0.07 to 0.15 is narrow, and copies are almost indistinguishable;


• the edges of the slide and trigger guard, where scuffing shows first;


• what the previous owner left on the gun: stickers and a name tag.

The Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox has no pattern variants, so there is nothing to choose by there.

What the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox costs in Minimal Wear

Measured from Minimal Wear, the other wears sit like this:

• Factory New sits one and a half times higher;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by about a seventh;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by a few percent;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by about a fifth.

The step down from this wear is small: the three worn wears share one price band.

Among Classified Desert Eagles, this skin costs the most in this wear. Hypnotic is cheaper by about a fifth, and Cobalt Disruption is almost three times cheaper. Eastern Enigma and Kumicho Dragon are six to eight times cheaper, and Mecha Industries and Heat Treated by an even wider margin.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox

No regular case carries this artwork. To trade up into the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox you need ten skins one rank down from the same set. The odds are one in two, because the collection holds two Classified skins. Souvenir copies are handed out by the Mirage packages, the earliest of them Stockholm 2021.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox was never released, while a souvenir one exists.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox

The artwork is built from thin lines, so large stickers cover it more than small ones. High-contrast stickers in cool colors look best, since they do not sink into the warm background. The fox on the slide stays the main subject, and a CS2 craft is built around the grip.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox in Minimal Wear is justified in these cases:

• you want a Classified Desert Eagle with an almost intact pattern, without paying extra for Factory New;


• a narrow float band matters, where picking by number is hardly needed;


• for CS2 you want a warm-toned Desert Eagle you won't mind taking into a match.