Desert Eagle | Starcade (Factory New)

In Factory New (FN) the Desert Eagle | Starcade is a blue-violet pistol with metallic flecks and colors untouched by wear. The band here is 0.00 to 0.07, and the skin's float ceiling is 0.75. The rank is Classified, and the pistol comes from The Graphic Design Collection. In CS2 the Desert Eagle | Starcade exists in all five wears.

What the Desert Eagle | Starcade looks like in Factory New

The top of the slide is blue-violet, with metallic flecks scattered across it. Two stripes lie along the side, one green and one red-orange, and a red mark shows at the base of the slide. The grip has a mottled pink-brown ground with speckle, a turquoise diagonal runs through it, and the heel is red-orange.

Valve calls the artwork abstract and speaks of paint with a metallic sheen. The item's tagline is "A New High Score!". In Factory New every field of color is whole: the flecks show without scuffs, the stripes are unbroken, and the red heel of the grip keeps its color.

What to check before buying

Before paying for a Desert Eagle | Starcade, look at these things:

• the float: the band from 0.00 to 0.07 takes 9% of the skin's scale, and the edges are cleaner closer to zero;


• the previous owner's stickers and any name tag on the Desert Eagle | Starcade;


• whether the red heel of the grip and the slide are intact.

There is no point hunting for a Desert Eagle | Starcade by pattern index: the drawing does not change. Inside 0.00 to 0.07, no copy can be called the best one.

What the Desert Eagle | Starcade costs in Factory New

Relative to Factory New, the other wears are cheaper by these factors:

• Minimal Wear, 2.50 times;


• Field-Tested, 4.64 times;


• Well-Worn, 4.70 times;


• Battle-Scarred, 6.35 times.

The three lower wears differ from one another by a few percent, while from them to the factory wear the price grows several times over. Of the nine Classified Desert Eagles with a price at this wear, the skin is the second most expensive. Only Desert Eagle | Fennec Fox is higher, roughly twice. The nearest below, Desert Eagle | Hypnotic, is a tenth cheaper. Desert Eagle | Cobalt Disruption costs half as much, and Desert Eagle | Heat Treated a fifth.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Starcade

The Desert Eagle | Starcade does not drop from cases. The Graphic Design Collection was opened in the game in October 2024, and the skin was in it from the first day.

A trade-up for the Desert Eagle | Starcade takes ten skins of the rank below from one collection. Two Classified skins sit in the collection, so the odds are even. There is nothing to gain in such a contract.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Desert Eagle | Starcade has no StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages existed for the finish. The Souvenir-O-Matic does let you build a souvenir copy yourself, with gold tournament stickers and a player autograph going onto a regular skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Starcade

The pure color of the stripes on the slide fights with bright stickers. White and light stickers read on the blue-violet field, and dark ones work better on the turquoise diagonal of the grip. It is better not to cover the red heel: it sets the composition.

Who this wear suits

The Desert Eagle | Starcade is worth buying here, in Factory New, in these cases:

• you want a Desert Eagle with whole fields of color and flecks without scuffs;


• paying 2.50 times as much as for Minimal Wear is acceptable;


• the skin is going into a CS2 inventory for inspecting, not for everyday play.

For CS2 play, the factory condition adds nothing: wear does not affect shooting.