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AWP | Desert Hydra (Field-Tested)

Name: AWP | Desert Hydra (Field-Tested)
Brand: SKIN.LAND
Availability: InStock

RegularSouvenir

Type Sniper Rifle

Rarity Covert

Category Regular

Best offer

Field-Tested 0.323954761028290

$932.79 -36%

Steam: $1449

Factory New51 on sale From $1304.29

Minimal Wear26 on sale From $1060.85

Field-Tested33 on sale From $932.79

Well-Worn8 on sale From $1074.85

Battle-Scarred19 on sale From $886.07

33 offers

0.323954761028290

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$932.79

0.157164722681050

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Stone Scales (Foil)
Chicken Lil'

Stone Scales (Foil)
100%
$3.57
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$0.58
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Up to 12H Delivery may take up to 12 hours. You can cancel if the seller doesn't create the trade within 30 minutes.

$970.93

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0.162636250257490

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Blinky

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$971.02

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s1mple (Gold) | Paris 2023

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Fly High
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Fly High
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Fly High

Fly High
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$0.12
Fly High
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Fly High
100%
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$1002.33

Nametag 神魔辉逝

0.170333564281460

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Fly High
Diamond Dog

Fly High
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$0.12
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$5.31
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$1013.43

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Stone Scales (Foil)
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Stone Scales (Foil)

Stone Scales (Foil)
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$3.57
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$3.57
Stone Scales (Foil)
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$3.57
Stone Scales (Foil)
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$3.57
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$1043.99

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electroNic (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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$0.16
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$1.66
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$1043.99

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Senzu (Holo) | Copenhagen 2024
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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Paris 2023

Senzu (Holo) | Copenhagen 2024
100%
$0.45
Natus Vincere (Holo) | Paris 2023
0%
$1.66
Total: $2.11

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$1064.98

0.196815595030780

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$1078.75

Nametag Kennys

0.313945293426510

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G2 Esports | London 2018
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kennyS (Foil) | Krakow 2017
100%
kennyS (Foil) | Cluj-Napoca 2015
100%
kennyS (Foil) | Boston 2018
100%
Ribbon Tie
Titeenium AWP

G2 Esports | London 2018
100%
$1.36
kennyS (Foil) | Krakow 2017
100%
$70.04
kennyS (Foil) | Cluj-Napoca 2015
100%
$74.61
kennyS (Foil) | Boston 2018
100%
$33.11
Ribbon Tie
100%
$0.43
Titeenium AWP
$2.76
Total: $182.31

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$1088.47

Nametag Nikola，我空枪了

0.179706439375880

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G2 Esports (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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G2 Esports (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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G2 Esports (Holo) | Stockholm 2021

G2 Esports (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$2.54
G2 Esports (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$2.54
G2 Esports (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$2.54
Total: $7.62

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$1096.14

0.218841418623920

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$1110.42

0.267296224832530

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Baby Howl
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Tyloo (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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Tyloo (Holo) | Stockholm 2021

Baby Howl
100%
$0.51
Tyloo (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$7.12
Tyloo (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$7.12
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$1123.17

Nametag Band 4 Band

0.366653293371200

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3DMAX (Foil) | Katowice 2015
100%
JamYoung (Gold) | Budapest 2025
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rain (Foil) | MLG Columbus 2016
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Kvik (Gold) | Boston 2018

3DMAX (Foil) | Katowice 2015
100%
$200
JamYoung (Gold) | Budapest 2025
100%
$25.86
rain (Foil) | MLG Columbus 2016
26%
$74.05
Kvik (Gold) | Boston 2018
19%
$180.23
Total: $480.14

Up to 12H Delivery may take up to 12 hours. You can cancel if the seller doesn't create the trade within 30 minutes.

$1212.54

0.237547904253010

32%
Vox Eminor | Cologne 2014
100%
Fly High
48%
Fly High
100%
Fly High
68%
Fly High

Vox Eminor | Cologne 2014
32%
$20.3
Fly High
100%
$0.12
Fly High
48%
$0.12
Fly High
100%
$0.12
Fly High
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$0.12
Total: $20.78

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$1232.54

0.210687100887300

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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
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s1mple (Holo) | Antwerp 2022

Natus Vincere (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
100%
$2.2
Natus Vincere (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
100%
$2.2
Natus Vincere (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
100%
$2.2
s1mple (Holo) | Antwerp 2022
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$9.68
Total: $16.28

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$1252.76

Nametag 蛇王

0.158739924430850

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Virtus.Pro (Holo) | Stockholm 2021

Virtus.Pro (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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$4.18

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$1275.62

Nametag 烟花向星辰，所愿皆成真

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Tyloo (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
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sh1ro (Gold) | Stockholm 2021

Gambit Gaming (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
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$4.57
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.95
Tyloo (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$24.36
sh1ro (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$11.69
Total: $42.57

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$1304.04

0.336350917816160

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$1472.19

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Chompers
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Chompers
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Chompers

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Nametag 做自己的英雄

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kennyS (Foil) | Berlin 2019
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ZywOo (Holo) | Copenhagen 2024
35%
Virtus.pro (Holo) | Copenhagen 2024

kennyS (Foil) | Berlin 2019
0%
$4.58
ZywOo (Holo) | Copenhagen 2024
48%
$1.25
Virtus.pro (Holo) | Copenhagen 2024
35%
$2.32
Total: $8.15

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$1787.32

Nametag 第二次爱上你是我们永别后的某个落雨天

0.226585432887080

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Ninjas in Pyjamas (Gold) | 2020 RMR
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IEM (Gold) | Rio 2022
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FaZe Clan (Gold) | Rio 2022
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rain (Gold) | Katowice 2019

Ninjas in Pyjamas (Gold) | 2020 RMR
100%
$1.26
IEM (Gold) | Rio 2022
100%
$1.55
FaZe Clan (Gold) | Rio 2022
100%
$2.91
rain (Gold) | Katowice 2019
100%
$116.1
Total: $121.82

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$2035.84

Nametag Letting go

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s1mple | Krakow 2017
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s1mple (Holo) | Stockholm 2021

s1mple | Krakow 2017
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$11.8
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$1.66
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$2114.30

0.238530889153480

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Crown (Foil)
45%
m0NESY | Shanghai 2024

Crown (Foil)
100%
$302.64
m0NESY | Shanghai 2024
45%
$0.05
Total: $302.69

Up to 12H Delivery may take up to 12 hours. You can cancel if the seller doesn't create the trade within 30 minutes.

$2175.07

0.161520481109620

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9z Team (Gold) | Antwerp 2022
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boltz (Gold) | Antwerp 2022
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apEX (Gold) | Antwerp 2022

9z Team (Gold) | Antwerp 2022
100%
$3.78
boltz (Gold) | Antwerp 2022
100%
$1.48
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100%
$3.88
Total: $9.14

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$2284.83

0.173736914992330

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$2317.89

0.181849166750910

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$2349.07

Nametag 热烈

0.241543784737590

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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021

Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
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$1.83
Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.83
Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.83
Natus Vincere (Holo) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.83
Total: $7.32

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$2431.00

0.237552016973495

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Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
Leaving The Station (Holo)

Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
$4.48
Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
$4.48
Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
$4.48
Leaving The Station (Holo)
100%
$4.48
Total: $17.92

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$2958.28

0.248917728662490

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PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021

PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.95
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.95
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.95
PGL (Gold) | Stockholm 2021
100%
$1.95
Total: $7.80

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$3132.30

AWP | Desert Hydra (Field-Tested)

The AWP | Desert Hydra (Field-Tested) is a Covert sniper skin carrying its signature gold-serpent desert artwork in the condition most copies trade in. Field-Tested brings honest, visible wear to a finish whose scarcity keeps it firmly in grail territory regardless.

Design

Made in-house by Valve instead of coming from the community, the Desert Hydra wears a cluster of gold snakes — the many-headed hydra motif — creeping toward the barrel across a warm desert-orange body, the scope, barrel, and stock picked out in white. It's paired with a suitably ominous in-game line: "Cutting off one head means two more appear."

AWP | Desert Hydra (Field-Tested) Float and Wear

At Field-Tested the finish picks up light scratching along the rails and edges and the surface softens a touch, but the gold serpents stay fully legible and the desert tones stay vivid. This is the condition most copies change hands in, and for many buyers it's the practical sweet spot — the complete Desert Hydra look a step down from the higher grades.

AWP | Desert Hydra Rarity

Rarity: Covert, the red tier — the highest of the standard weapon rarity grades. That standing makes the Desert Hydra one of the AWP's most prized finishes, holding the most exclusive rung a weapon can reach.

AWP | Desert Hydra Case and Collection

Introduced with Operation Riptide in September 2021, the Desert Hydra is a finish from The 2021 Mirage Collection. As a Covert it's the rarest grade in the set — the Covert tier sits at roughly 0.64% (shared across the tier's skins) — and with copies only ever coming from Mirage souvenir packages given out at Majors, the pool is fixed and tiny, one of the main reasons the skin trades as high as it does.

AWP | Desert Hydra Patterns

Pattern variation doesn't factor into the Desert Hydra — the gold serpents are placed the same on every copy, so there's no paint seed or blue-gem hunt. Only float and wear distinguish one example from the next, though Souvenir copies decorated with tournament stickers can carry steep premiums of their own.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak Desert Hydra doesn't exist — StatTrak weapons derive from weapon cases that carry a StatTrak variant, and this finish was never one of them. Its Souvenir version, though, is the collectible prize: because Souvenir weapons issue only from Major-tournament souvenir packages and Mirage served as a Major map, a package like the Stockholm 2021 Mirage Souvenir Package could deliver a Souvenir Desert Hydra.

AWP | Desert Hydra Price

Field-Tested lands in the middle of the Desert Hydra range — more attainable than the higher grades yet still a high-end, grail-tier skin. It's also the most liquid exterior, changing hands more often than any other. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Does the Field-Tested Desert Hydra look worn?

A little, but not badly. You'll see light scratching on the rails and edges and a slight softening of the surface, yet the gold serpents and the desert-and-white body stay clearly on display. At normal in-game distances it still reads as the unmistakable Desert Hydra, which is a big part of why this grade is so popular.

Why is Field-Tested the most common Desert Hydra?

Because the finish spans a wide float range and a large share of copies land in the Field-Tested band. That makes it the exterior you'll see traded most often, and the deeper pool of listings tends to keep it the more reachable grade relative to the near-mint conditions above it.

Who designed the Desert Hydra?

Valve made it in-house rather than sourcing it from the Steam Workshop. The gold-serpent artwork ties into the hydra of myth — cut off one head and two grow back — which is echoed directly in the skin's flavor text. That first-party origin sits alongside its Covert grade as part of the appeal.