Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore (Minimal Wear)

The Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore in Minimal Wear (MW) is a copy whose gold on the raised edges has been only lightly touched. The rank is Covert. Items like this went to tournament viewers in Cobblestone packages rather than dropping from CS2 cases. Team logos and a player's autograph came with the package itself.

What the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore looks like in Minimal Wear

The dominant element is the orange-gold dragon on the left plane of the receiver, with a yellow glow around the figure's outline. Second in prominence is the barrel: diamond scales in warm gold near the receiver, dark gray metal at the muzzle. Olive green remains on receiver, handguard and stock, with the gold ornament running over it. Bipod and the top of the optic are olive-gold, and a beige panel stands out separately on the stock.

The gilding leaves the raised edges, and in this grade only the receiver top and the butt plate are touched at all. The rings on the barrel are still gold and the fine scaling is whole along its length. The 0.07–0.15 stretch is short, so the difference between listings falls inside the margin of error.

Where the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore came from

The finish has no outside artist: Valve painted it, and no Steam Workshop submission for this skin can be found. Its number in Valve's catalog is 344. The Cobblestone collection was released on July 1, 2014, and ten packages with that map accumulated, running from ESL One Cologne 2014 through Boston 2018.

What to check before buying

What carries weight on a listing:

• the stickers and name tag already standing on that particular copy;


• the tournament the package came from, which decides whose signature lies on the item;


• the float: the grade runs from 0.07 to 0.15, and at the top edge the receiver top lightens.

There is no lottery in the artwork: the dragon is the same on every copy.

What the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore costs in Minimal Wear

The neighboring grades of the Souvenir release:

• Factory New is about a quarter more expensive;


• Field-Tested about a third cheaper.

Against the plain version in the same grade the premium comes to around a tenth. That is the whole payment for a tournament origin: team logos, a player's signature and the Souvenir label itself.

Among Covert AWP finishes in Minimal Wear the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore leads on price. AWP | Desert Hydra is about nine times cheaper, AWP | CMYK more than twenty, and AWP | Printstream thirty-six.

Getting the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore

The item has one source: Cobblestone Souvenir packages given to spectators at Majors and ESL One tournaments. The last in that line was the Boston 2018 package. Neither cases nor the trade-up contract produce Souvenir copies.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Souvenir items are not issued with a kill counter, so no StatTrak version exists here. If the team stickers are not wanted, the plain AWP | Dragon Lore is the buy, with its own page and its own price.

Stickers and craft on the Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore

A Souvenir item carries one player signature, and the team logos belong to the match the package came out of. They cannot be swapped for your own, which is why float is not the only thing driving the price. Personal craft has nowhere to go on the body: the ornament occupies receiver, handguard and stock.

Who this wear suits

Buying here makes sense on these terms:

• a Souvenir copy is wanted without paying the Factory New premium;


• the rings on the barrel and the scaling along its length have to stay gold;


• the rifle is going into a CS2 collection where condition counts.