Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel (Minimal Wear)

In Minimal Wear (MW), the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel is a Covert Glock for the Terrorist side, with graffiti over gray metal and a light trace of wear. Its float band is 0.07 to 0.15, which is 15% of the skin's scale from 0.00 to 0.54. The skin drops from the Gamma Case.

What the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel looks like in Minimal Wear

The slide, frame and grip are covered in big white strokes, letters and crosses mixed together. A brown-orange ornament runs along the top of the slide, and the gray metal under the strokes looks scuffed. Valve's text sums the finish up as aged, block-printed and sprayed with graffiti, and the line that signs it off reads "Pay tribute".

In Minimal Wear the edges of the slide and frame are a little lighter than on a new copy, but the skin has an aged look in every wear. The white marks are intact.

What to check before buying

What matters when you buy the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel:

• float: in this wear the band from 0.07 to 0.15 is tight, and a difference between listings is hard to catch;


• the edges of the slide, where the metal turns lighter;


• a name tag and stickers: on a Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel they stay on the item when it is sold.

The artwork on the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel does not vary, so pattern plays no part in the choice.

What the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel costs in Minimal Wear

The other wears sit close to Minimal Wear in price:

• Factory New: even, the difference is below three percent;


• Field-Tested: cheaper by about a twentieth;


• Well-Worn: a bit cheaper, by a few percent;


• Battle-Scarred: even, the difference is below three percent.

Among Covert Glock-18 skins, it costs more than eight in this wear and less than two. The closest is Glock-18 | Fully Tuned, a tenth cheaper. Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Phase 2 is a fifth cheaper, and the other phases a quarter or more. Above it come Glock-18 | Gamma Doppler Emerald, twice as expensive, and Glock-18 | Ghost Protocol, at two and a half times the price. Glock-18 | Neo-Noir costs less than half.

Getting the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel

The Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel cannot drop from any other case: it sits in the Gamma Case, which came out in June 2016. A trade-up contract for it takes ten skins one rank lower from the same collection. The odds are one in two. The collection has two Covert skins, and the second is M4A1-S | Mecha Industries.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak exists for the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel. Souvenir packages for this finish were never issued, because only tournament map collections had them. Anyone who wants a Souvenir copy can build one. The Souvenir-O-Matic applies gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to a regular skin from the inventory, so a Souvenir copy can exist for finishes that never had a package.

Stickers and craft on the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel

The white strokes take up the center of the slide and frame, so stickers sit more easily on the grip and on the open gray areas. Black, red and orange stickers show up against the gray-and-white ground, while white ones get lost. In CS2 a craft like this looks put together and does not fight the graffiti.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Glock-18 | Wasteland Rebel in Minimal Wear is justified when:

• you want a Covert Glock for CS2 whose price does not depend on wear;


• a light scuffing on the edges is acceptable;


• you do not need to choose by float, since the 0.07 to 0.15 band is narrow.