Nova | Bloomstick (Battle-Scarred)

The Nova | Bloomstick (Battle-Scarred) is a Classified shotgun skin with a pink cherry-blossom motif, in its most heavily worn condition. It's the cheapest way into the floral design, trading surface polish for the lowest entry price.

Design

This Nova is airbrushed by hand with a cherry-blossom motif in soft pink and topped with a high-gloss coat, a decorative, floral look built on delicate detail rather than hard graphics. Valve crafted the finish, one of the shotgun's more distinctive designs.

Nova | Bloomstick (Battle-Scarred) Float and Wear

The finish is capped at float 0.80 rather than a full 1.0, so even Battle-Scarred — the top of its 0.06–0.80 range — never reaches the most extreme wear a full-range skin would. Heavy scratching and paint loss cover the body and the gloss is gone, but the blossom motif stays legible and the damage stops short of total. It's the roughest, most affordable grade of the design.

Nova | Bloomstick Rarity

Rarity: Classified — the pink tier. It sits directly below Covert as the second-highest of the standard weapon grades, which makes it a genuinely uncommon grade to unbox.

Nova | Bloomstick Case and Collection

Belonging to The eSports 2014 Summer Collection, this Nova is unboxed from the eSports 2014 Summer Case, released in July 2014. As a group the Classified tier drops around three percent of the time from the case (the rate is shared across the tier), and because the case is out of the active drop pool, supply is fixed and most copies come from the market.

Nova | Bloomstick Patterns

Because the blossom artwork is fixed, the paint seed has zero effect on how this Nova looks — every copy wears the cherry-blossom motif 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

You can also find a StatTrak™ Bloomstick, drawn from the same case; it's rarer and pricier than the standard drop, and the counter is permanent, following the item through every trade or sale without ever being wiped. There's no Souvenir variant — Souvenir weapons only come from Major-tournament packages, and this collection has never featured as one.

Nova | Bloomstick Price

Battle-Scarred is the most affordable grade of the skin, the entry-level way to run this high-end floral 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 Bloomstick still recognizable?

Yes. Despite the heavy scuffing and lost gloss, the pink cherry-blossom motif keeps the design readable at a glance in-game. Battle-Scarred is about accepting visible wear in exchange for the lowest price on a sought-after finish, not losing the floral look that makes this Nova stand out.

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

Because the finish is float-capped at 0.80 instead of the usual 1.0, its Battle-Scarred copies never reach the worst end of the wear scale. Even with the gloss gone and paint thinning, the blossom pattern 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 blossom design for as little as possible, it's the obvious choice. You're accepting the heaviest wear the finish allows, but the motif remains clear and the price is the lowest on the ladder. Buyers wanting a tidier, glossier surface should look at Field-Tested or higher instead.