Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon (Factory New)

In Factory New (FN) the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon is the top step of this skin's scale, where the dragon's thin white lines are untouched by wear. It is a Classified skin. The Deagle belongs to The Wildfire Collection and drops from the Operation Wildfire Case, and either side can play it.

What the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon looks like in Factory New

Only the side of the slide and the grip panel are painted. The rest is bare gray metal: the frame, slide stop, trigger guard and the end of the barrel. A white-and-silver contour dragon is traced along the slide, its head at the muzzle end and its body running back toward the rear sight. A second dragon sits on the purple-raspberry grip panel. Valve describes the artwork as burned in by laser.

The float of the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon sits within 0.00 to 0.07, and that band keeps the artwork whole. You can make out the jaws, whiskers, scales and the loops of the body; there are no inscriptions or hieroglyphs. On the lower wears the top rib of the slide and the border of the ejection window tear first, but here those edges are still clean.

Where the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon came from

The author of the skin is The Honey Badger, whose submission "Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon" reached the Steam Workshop on October 22, 2015. The Wildfire Collection opened in the game on February 17, 2016, and the skin was there from the first day. Its number in Valve's catalog is 527. In the item text Valve slipped in a line from Huxley saying he is a big fan of Yukako's work.

What to check before buying

When choosing a Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon, pay attention to the following:

• float: the band is short, and the closer to 0.00, the cleaner the paint;


• the name tag and stickers this Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon already carries;


• the slide edges and the grip panel, where marks from the hand show first.

On the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon the 0.00 to 0.07 band is narrow, and copies are nearly indistinguishable.

What the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon costs in Factory New

This is the skin's most expensive wear. Minimal Wear costs exactly half as much, Well-Worn 2.55 times less, Field-Tested 3.05 times less and Battle-Scarred 3.08 times less. The three lower wears are close together, and the main gap falls at Factory New.

Counted against Classified Desert Eagles, the skin stands a little above the middle: of nine finishes with a price, three are cheaper and five are dearer. Eastern Enigma is at almost the same level, and Cobalt Disruption is half again as dear. Heat Treated is cheaper by about 40%, and Conspiracy and Mecha Industries by more than half. Hypnotic, Starcade and Fennec Fox are higher.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon

The Operation Wildfire Case is where it drops. A trade-up into the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon takes ten skins one rank down. If the ten come from The Wildfire Collection, which has three Classified skins, the odds of this Deagle are one in three. Inputs there include FAMAS | Valence, Five-SeveN | Triumvirate, Glock-18 | Royal Legion, MAG-7 | Praetorian and MP7 | Impire.

The skin is an input too: the Classified rank of this collection leads to the Covert AK-47 | Fuel Injector and M4A4 | The Battlestar.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon has a StatTrak version. There are no souvenir packages for it, and a souvenir copy is assembled yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon

The dragon's white line is thin, and a bright sticker beside it pulls the eye away. Dark and silver stickers do not argue with the artwork, and on the bare silver metal of the frame they read apart from the skin. The purple grip panel pairs well with pink and violet details.

Who this wear suits

Factory New pays off for the Desert Eagle | Kumicho Dragon when:

• you want a Classified Deagle for CS2 with an untouched linear design;


• the outline on the slide edges should stay whole in CS2 rather than torn, as on the lower wears;


• a twofold gap from Minimal Wear is acceptable for clean paint.