What makes a copy Souvenir

The Souvenir M4A1-S | Nitro (Minimal Wear, MW) is the Souvenir copy of this skin — the same Restricted finish, handed out in a souvenir package at a Major rather than pulled from a case. Designed by Valve around a motorsport theme, Nitro coats its individual parts in black and tangerine orange for a loud, energetic finish. Minimal Wear covers 0.07–0.15 on the float scale, a step below Factory New, with wear that stays hard to spot at a glance.

What the stickers do to the price of the M4A1-S | Nitro

These copies come out of souvenir packages handed to people watching a Major, not out of a case. Each one arrives wearing up to four stickers from the match that produced it: both teams, the MVP and the tournament, fixed in place from the moment it drops. A Souvenir skin is never StatTrak™ — the two are mutually exclusive.

Where it comes from

Price here is mostly a sticker question. Two souvenir copies of the same skin at the same exterior can sit far apart because one came from a memorable match and the other did not — check the stickers on a listing before comparing figures.

FAQ

This finish is part of The Safehouse Collection, which arrived on November 27, 2013 alongside the "Out with the old, in with the new" update.

Can a Souvenir M4A1-S | Nitro be StatTrak?

No. Souvenir and StatTrak™ are mutually exclusive — a copy is one or the other, never both, and neither can be added to a skin after it drops.

Can the stickers be removed from a Souvenir M4A1-S | Nitro?

No. Souvenir stickers are part of the copy and cannot be scraped off, unlike stickers a player applies themselves. That is why two souvenir copies of one skin at the same exterior can be priced far apart.