Nova | Baroque Orange (Battle-Scarred)

The Nova | Baroque Orange (Battle-Scarred) is a Restricted shotgun skin with an ornate red-and-gold Italian pattern, in its most heavily worn condition. It's the cheapest way into the baroque design, trading surface polish for the lowest entry price.

Design

This Nova is dressed in an intricate Italian-inspired baroque pattern of red and gold, a classical, ornamental look that relies on warm color and fine filigree instead of hard graphics. Valve crafted the finish, and it carries the in-game line "Last Supper is served."

Nova | Baroque Orange (Battle-Scarred) Float and Wear

The finish is capped at float 0.50 rather than a full 1.0, so even Battle-Scarred — the top of its 0.00–0.50 range — never reaches the most extreme wear a full-range skin would. Heavy scratching and paint loss cover the body, but the red-and-gold pattern stays legible and the damage stops short of total. It's the roughest, most affordable grade of the design.

Nova | Baroque Orange Rarity

Rarity: Restricted — the purple tier. It ranks one step under Classified and one above Mil-Spec, which makes it a genuinely uncommon grade rather than a routine drop.

Nova | Baroque Orange Case and Collection

Belonging to The Canals Collection, this Nova entered the game with Operation Shattered Web in November 2019. It's a collection finish, so rather than being unboxed it comes via operation drops and trade-ups; the Restricted tier represents about sixteen percent of the set's output, a share common to the tier's skins.

Nova | Baroque Orange Patterns

Because the baroque artwork is fixed, the paint seed has zero effect on how this Nova looks — every copy wears the red-and-gold pattern the same way, with no blue-gem or rare-seed variant to pursue. Only wear grade and float distinguish one unit from another.

StatTrak & Souvenir

There is no StatTrak edition of this finish, because StatTrak versions are generated within weapon cases and The Canals Collection was never sold as a case. The same logic rules out a Souvenir version — those weapons come solely from Major-tournament packages, and this collection was never offered through one.

Nova | Baroque Orange Price

Battle-Scarred is the most affordable grade of the skin, the entry-level way to run this high-end baroque Nova for players who prize the look over the condition. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is the Battle-Scarred Baroque Orange still recognizable?

Yes. Despite the heavy scuffing, the red-and-gold baroque pattern keeps the design readable at a glance in-game. Battle-Scarred is about accepting visible wear in exchange for the lowest price on a high-end finish, not losing the ornate look that makes this Nova stand out.

Why doesn't the Battle-Scarred version look completely destroyed?

Because the finish is float-capped at 0.50 instead of the usual 1.0, its Battle-Scarred copies never reach the worst end of the wear scale. Paired with a dense, high-contrast pattern that hides damage, the design stays more legible here than many lighter, full-range skins do at this grade.

Is Battle-Scarred a good budget entry to this Nova?

If you want the baroque design for as little as possible, it's the obvious choice. You're accepting the heaviest wear the finish allows, but the pattern remains clear and the price is the lowest on the ladder. Buyers wanting a tidier surface should look at Field-Tested instead.