Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale (Minimal Wear)

A cartoon pistol with a princess and unicorns, the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale in Minimal Wear (MW) still has its artwork whole, and the white frame is only lightly touched. The rank is Classified, the collection is The Operation Broken Fang Collection, and the source is the Operation Broken Fang Case.

What the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale looks like in Minimal Wear

The frame and trigger guard are white, while the top of the slide, the muzzle and the bottom of the grip are pink-raspberry. The slide shows a red castle, flowers, a pink unicorn and a princess with ginger-red hair. There is another pink unicorn on the grip. Valve's description reads: a princess, unicorns, flowers and a castle in the distance.

In Minimal Wear the artwork on the slide is clean, and the wear is limited to thin light scratches on the white frame and slight rims around the raspberry edges. Floats in this wear run from 0.07 to 0.15, a short band where the difference between listings is lost in the margin of error.

Where the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale came from

Operation Broken Fang launched on December 3, 2020, and the skin came out with it. That day Valve also started the Retakes mode and the operation's exclusive Premier. The Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale entered the game as part of the operation's collection.

What to check before buying

Here is what to look at on a Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale listing:

• the float: near 0.07 the frame is almost clean, toward 0.15 the scratches are more visible;


• the raspberry edges of the slide and muzzle, where the paint rubs off first;


• stickers and a name tag the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale picked up from a previous owner.

On the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale, a pattern index has no effect.

What the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale costs in Minimal Wear

Next to this wear, the neighboring ones price as follows:

• Factory New is dearer by about five times;


• Field-Tested is cheaper by about 2.3 times;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by about 2.6 times;


• Battle-Scarred is cheaper by almost three times.

This wear's share of the scale is 0.08 out of 0.88, about nine percent. The main price drop lies between Factory New and Minimal Wear, and below that the prices draw together.

Among the four Classified Five-SeveN finishes in this wear, the skin is second from the top: only Fall Hazard costs more, about four times as much. Monkey Business costs about half as much, and Fowl Play a little less than that.

Getting the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale

The pistol drops from the Operation Broken Fang Case. Through a trade-up, the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale takes ten skins of the rank below from the same collection.

Covert skins come next in line: ten Classified skins of the collection lead to the Glock-18 | Neo-Noir or the M4A1-S | Printstream.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale exists. The finish never had Souvenir packages, and Souvenir copies are assembled by players through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale

The white frame is the free space for stickers, and both dark and colored ones read on it. It is better not to cover the slide: the artwork is dense, and every sticker competes with the princess or a unicorn. Light scratches on the frame hardly hurt a craft.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is worth buying for the Five-SeveN | Fairy Tale when:

• you want a bright pistol for CS2 with almost untouched artwork;


• saving matters, since Factory New costs five times as much;


• you need a frame for a craft where the scratches are only hinted at.