Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm (Minimal Wear)

The Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm in Minimal Wear (MW) is an Industrial Grade pistol from The Rising Sun Collection. In Minimal Wear the float sits between 0.07 and 0.15. The skin has no case.

What the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm looks like in Minimal Wear

According to Valve, a stormy sea has been applied to the pistol by hydrographics over a blue metallic base. Valve's description says nothing more about the artwork.

The skin's scale runs from 0.00 to 0.75, and the Minimal Wear band takes about 11% of it: 0.08 of 0.75. The skin comes in five wears, from Factory New to Battle-Scarred.

Where the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm came from

The Rising Sun Collection came out on May 26, 2015. In its notes for Operation Bloodhound, Valve listed it among the six weapon collections tied to the pass.

What to check before buying

Picking a particular Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm comes down to two points:

• the float: the wear band runs from 0.07 to 0.15, and listings are worth comparing against one another;


• any name tag and stickers: on the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm they stay with the listing.

What the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm costs in Minimal Wear

Relative to this wear, the others stand as follows:

• Factory New is 3.2 times dearer;


• Field-Tested is 2.1 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is 1.8 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is 2.1 times cheaper.

The order breaks at the bottom: Well-Worn costs more than Field-Tested.

Among Industrial Grade Desert Eagles, the Midnight Storm in this wear is priced above the rest. Closest to it is the Desert Eagle | Night, which trails by only a few percent.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm

No case contains the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm.

A contract for it is built from ten skins one rank lower, taken from whichever collections you have. To steer the result to one set, put all ten in from that set. In The Rising Sun Collection that means five Consumer Grade skins, among them the G3SG1 | Orange Kimono, P250 | Mint Kimono and Tec-9 | Bamboo Forest. The collection holds two Industrial Grade skins, the other being the P250 | Crimson Kimono, so the odds are one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

There is no StatTrak version of the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm. No souvenir packages ever carried this skin, but an ordinary copy can be turned into a souvenir through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm

The finish has a blue metallic base with a stormy sea over it. Light and warm stickers contrast with the blue, while cold blue ones will merge into the base.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Desert Eagle | Midnight Storm in this wear is worth it if:

• you want a Desert Eagle for CS2 with the stormy-sea artwork and a clean body at moderate wear;


• Factory New is 3.2 times dearer and you do not need to pay that premium;


• you specifically want the Midnight Storm: Minimal Wear is the first wear after Factory New.