Desert Eagle | Naga (Minimal Wear)

What the Desert Eagle | Naga looks like in Minimal Wear

The Desert Eagle | Naga in Minimal Wear (MW) runs from 0.07 to 0.15 on the float scale. It has Restricted rank, belongs to The Chroma Collection, and works on either side. For CS2 this is a short band in which the engraving still reads cleanly.

What to check before buying the Desert Eagle | Naga

The Deagle is styled as old metal: gray with an olive-green cast and no gloss. The slide is the center of attention, where relief scrollwork winds like the curves of a snake. The grip panels are brown and carry a small emblem, so that is the only place the pistol shows a warm color. In Valve's description the engraving is a mythological motif, and the naga is a creature of Indian mythology.

In Minimal Wear the metal is lighter than in the lower wears: there are few scuffs and the gray is almost even. The fine curls at the edge of the panel are slightly smeared, but the snake pattern reads as a whole.

How to read the float on the Desert Eagle | Naga

A few things are worth checking before you pay:

• float: the 0.07 to 0.15 band is short, and it is hard to catch a difference between listings;


• whether the pistol carries stickers and a name tag;


• how clean the slide is, since the engraving is concentrated there.

What the Desert Eagle | Naga costs in Minimal Wear

The MW band is eight hundredths of the scale, 8% of the finish's full range. Factory New is its neighbor in float, yet it costs more than five times as much. With so short a stretch, two listings with different numbers look nearly identical by eye. What decides is the cleanliness of the slide and the stickers.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Naga

Factory New is more than five times as expensive. Field-Tested is cheaper by half, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred by a factor of 2.2. The ladder here is shorter than on Battle-Scarred: Minimal Wear sits below the top wear but clearly above the lower ones.

Among Restricted Desert Eagles in Minimal Wear, the Naga costs more than Light Rail, Firebreathing, Trigger Discipline and Serpent Strike, while Directive costs half again as much as the Naga. Higher up stand Blaze and two more finishes.

StatTrak and Souvenir

You can open the Naga out of the Chroma Case. A trade-up contract is the second route: ten Mil-Spec skins go in, from anywhere, and the result comes from the collection of one of the inputs. You can fill the ten with Chroma skins to steer the outcome, but that is a choice, not a rule.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Naga

StatTrak exists for the Desert Eagle | Naga; no Souvenir packages were ever issued for the finish.

Who this wear suits

The gray base takes any sticker calmly. Gold and dark ones sit next to the slide without arguing with the brown grip; busy, multicolored ones are better kept off the engraving.

Minimal Wear on the Desert Eagle | Naga makes sense under these conditions:

• you want clean engraving without visible grime;


• the budget does not stretch to Factory New, but the lower wears do not appeal;


• the relief on the slide matters most.