Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike (Factory New)

In Factory New (FN) the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike sits at the top of the wear scale: the scales on the slide are whole and the edges untouched. Copies carry floats from 0.00 to 0.07, about an eighth of a scale that ends at 0.57. It is a Restricted skin from The Fever Collection.

What the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike looks like in Factory New

Orange and russet scales run the full length of the slide and climb onto the top of the frame, with dark red and burgundy blotches mixed in. The scale size tapers from large at the slide to small toward the frame. Orange inserts glow at the muzzle and on the trigger. On the dark gray grip panels lies a burgundy-red relief of a coiled snake.

In FN the paint is almost untouched, and single scales can be picked out along the whole slide. The light edging at the slide and on the frame corners is minimal. The strip under the slide and the magazine stay gray, with no pattern.

Where the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike came from

nikto drew the finish, and Valve's catalog lists it under number 1189. The skin entered the game on March 31, 2025, together with The Fever Collection. Valve accompanied the update with a short note about the case, "The Fever Case".

What to check before buying

These are the points to go through before paying for this Deagle:

• float within 0.00 to 0.07: the closer to zero, the cleaner the edge of the slide;


• placement of the pattern on the slide and frame: the scales do not lie the same way on every copy;


• stickers and a name tag on the Desert Eagle, if there are any.

There is little to choose by float, since the band from 0.00 to 0.07 is short. The pattern itself, though, differs from copy to copy.

Pattern variance on the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike

The finish is applied with a stencil, and the stencil lands with an offset. Two copies in Factory New can therefore have identical wear and different scales. For a wear this clean, that is the main difference after float: look over the slide and the grip before paying.

What the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike costs in Factory New

Every other wear of this finish is cheaper than Factory New:

• Minimal Wear is 1.9 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is 2.4 times cheaper;


• Field-Tested is 2.5 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is 3.1 times cheaper.

Of the Restricted Desert Eagles, this finish costs the least in this wear. Next in ascending order come Desert Eagle | Firebreathing and Desert Eagle | Trigger Discipline, then Desert Eagle | Mulberry and Desert Eagle | Light Rail. The dearest in the line, Desert Eagle | Blaze and both Sunset Storm finishes (壱 and 弐), sit two orders of magnitude higher.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike

The Fever Case drops this Deagle in any wear, and the finish has no other case.

Trade-up is the other route. The contract takes ten Mil-Spec skins from any collections, and the skin that comes out belongs to the collection of one of the inputs. Putting all ten in from The Fever Collection is the player's choice. It steers the result into that set's five Restricted skins, so the chance of this Deagle is one in five.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were issued for the finish, since those were made only for tournament map collections. A Souvenir copy can be built yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Serpent Strike

Clean scales leave no even field on the slide, so a sticker lands directly on the pattern. The magazine and the bottom of the frame, both gray, give the calmest background. Cool stickers (blue, white) stand out against the orange, while red ones blend into the burgundy patches of the scales.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is worth buying on this Deagle if:

• you want unbroken scales with no light edges;


• the Deagle is going into a collector's inventory, where condition counts;


• willingness to sort through several copies by pattern placement outweighs the price gap to Minimal Wear.

For playing CS2 the extra paid for FN adds nothing: wear in CS2 changes neither spread nor damage.