Negev | Sour Grapes (Minimal Wear)

The Negev | Sour Grapes (Minimal Wear, MW) is an Industrial Grade machine gun finish coated in rich purple tones. Minimal Wear keeps almost all of that color intact, adding only the faintest surface wear — a near-top-grade look at a friendlier price.

Design

Built entirely around purple, the finish stacks a few shades of the color for depth and skips graphics altogether, which makes it pop on the Negev's broad frame where most finishes stay muted. Valve designed it, and it carries a playful tagline in-game: "Purple people deleter."

Negev | Sour Grapes (Minimal Wear) Float and Wear

Across the finish's 0.00–0.80 float range, Minimal Wear sits in the low band just above Factory New (FN). Expect only light, scattered wear at the edges while the purple body stays largely untouched and saturated. From a normal viewing distance it's hard to separate from the top grade.

Negev | Sour Grapes Rarity

Rarity is Industrial Grade, the light-blue tier one rung up from Consumer. That places it among the more common grades in the game, part of why the finish stays cheap and easy to grab.

Negev | Sour Grapes Case and Collection

Part of The Ascent Collection, the finish debuted alongside the Spring Forward update in March 2025. No weapon case drops it — as a collection finish, its copies surface through collection drops and trade-up contracts.

Negev | Sour Grapes Patterns

Every copy wears the purple exactly the same way; the finish has a fixed layout with no pattern index to roll, so there's no best seed or blue-gem hunt. Only the float and wear grade set copies apart.

StatTrak & Souvenir

No StatTrak edition was ever made — those counters are minted within weapon cases, and this finish comes from a collection with no case attached. Souvenir copies don't exist either, since Souvenir weapons are produced solely through Major-tournament packages that never featured this finish.

Negev | Sour Grapes Price

Minimal Wear sits just below Factory New on this finish's ladder while staying squarely in budget territory. For most buyers it's the sweet spot: near-top color for a hair less than the cleanest grade. Available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

How different is Minimal Wear from Factory New here?

Barely different to the eye. Minimal Wear carries only light edge wear while the purple body stays deep and even, so at a glance it mirrors the top grade. Since the finish is cheap either way, the choice usually comes down to how much you care about a perfect float number.

Does the wear grade change the purple color?

Not the hue itself. The purple stays the same tone across grades; higher wear just adds scuffing and scratches that break up the surface. At Minimal Wear that damage is minimal, so the color still reads full and saturated.

Is this a good budget Negev?

Very much so. It's one of the more affordable ways to put a genuinely colorful finish on the Negev, and Minimal Wear gives you a near-pristine surface without paying the top-grade premium. For players who like standing out on a budget, it's an easy call.