The Nova | Windblown (Battle-Scarred) is a Mil-Spec shotgun skin showing its spray-painted dandelion field in the roughest condition available. It's the cheapest way into the meadow design, trading surface polish for the lowest entry price.

Design

The finish paints a dandelion meadow across the Nova — pale yellow flowers over green stems, a soft outdoor theme that's rare on shotguns. It began as a community submission from artist MGBazz and ships with a tongue-in-cheek in-game line: "Get off my lawn."

Nova | Windblown (Battle-Scarred) Float and Wear

Battle-Scarred is the top of the finish's float scale, which is capped at 0.50 rather than a full 1.0. That cap matters: even at its worst this Nova never reaches the extreme battering a full-range skin would show, so while the dandelion field takes heavy scuffing and paint loss, it stays more legible than most Battle-Scarred finishes.

Nova | Windblown Rarity

Rarity: Mil-Spec Grade — the blue band, the most common tier of the standard weapon grades. Its spot at the foot of the rarity ladder keeps this Nova cheap and easy to come by.

Nova | Windblown Case and Collection

Belonging to The Snakebite Collection, this finish is unboxed from the Snakebite Case that arrived with the End of Broken Fang update in May 2021. The Mil-Spec tier is the case's most frequent outcome at around 79.92% (the rate is shared across the tier's skins), which keeps the market well stocked.

Nova | Windblown Patterns

Since the dandelion layout is fixed, the paint seed changes nothing — every copy wears the artwork identically, and there's no blue-gem or best-pattern seed to hunt for. Copies differ from one another only in wear grade and float value.

StatTrak & Souvenir

There's a StatTrak™ Windblown as well, fitted with a confirmed-kill counter that never gets wiped and stays with the weapon through trades and sales; it drops more rarely and costs more than the standard skin. A Souvenir version doesn't exist — Souvenir weapons are handed out only through Major-tournament packages, and the Snakebite Case was never one.

Nova | Windblown Price

Battle-Scarred is the cheapest grade of the finish — the entry-level way to run the dandelion Nova for players who care about the look more than the condition. And because this is a Mil-Spec skin, "cheapest grade" here means genuinely pocket-change territory. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is the Battle-Scarred Windblown still recognizable?

Yes. The heavy scuffing dulls the surface, but the dense dandelion field keeps the meadow theme readable at a glance in-game. Battle-Scarred is about accepting visible wear for the lowest price, not losing the design — the yellow-and-green artwork still identifies it clearly as a Windblown.

Why doesn't the Battle-Scarred Windblown look completely trashed?

Because the finish is float-capped at 0.50 instead of the usual 1.0, its Battle-Scarred copies never hit the most extreme wear. Combined with the busy dandelion pattern, that leaves the Nova noticeably more legible here than many lighter-based skins are at the same grade.

Is Battle-Scarred the cheapest Windblown?

Yes. It's the lowest grade on the ladder and the least expensive way to own the dandelion design. Given the skin's Mil-Spec rarity, that already puts it among the cheapest Nova finishes around — a fine pick if you want the look and don't mind the visible weathering.

Nova | Windblown (Battle-Scarred)

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