Tec-9 | Brass (Battle-Scarred)

The Tec-9 | Brass (Battle-Scarred) is a Mil-Spec pistol finish pairing brass panels with the gun's black frame, here in its roughest available state. It's the cheapest way to own the design, trading shine for the lowest possible price.

Design

The idea stays consistent across every copy: sections of the weapon have been replaced with brass, set against the Tec-9's factory black, exactly as Valve describes it. It's a Valve-made finish, and it carries the flavor line "Fool's gold" — a nod to a metal that looks precious but isn't.

Tec-9 | Brass (Battle-Scarred) Float and Wear

The finish spans the full 0.00–1.00 float range, and Battle-Scarred lands at the very top of that scale — this skin has no float cap, so it reaches the most extreme wear the game allows. The brass looks heavily tarnished here and the black sections carry deep scuffing throughout, giving the roughest possible look for the finish.

Tec-9 | Brass Rarity

Classification-wise, this is Mil-Spec Grade, the blue and most common tier among standard weapon grades — a label that, once again, has little to do with how hard this specific finish actually is to track down.

Tec-9 | Brass Case and Collection

Brass belongs to The Inferno Collection, released with the Arms Deal update in August 2013, and it was never attached to any weapon case. Regular copies still come from trade-up contracts, while Souvenir copies were only ever distributed in Major-tournament packages, with the Mil-Spec tier pulling at close to 79.92% odds from those drops.

Tec-9 | Brass Patterns

There's no blue-gem-style pattern to chase on this patina finish, but paint seed still nudges the metal's texture a little from copy to copy. At Battle-Scarred, though, the heavy wear does far more to define the look than seed does.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak edition has never existed for this finish. It does come as both a regular finish and a Souvenir finish, the latter debuting in the ESL One Cologne 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package and continuing to appear in later Major souvenir packages since.

Tec-9 | Brass Price

Battle-Scarred is the cheapest grade on the Brass ladder, the entry point for anyone who wants the finish without paying for shine. Because the Inferno Collection is long discontinued, even this bottom grade still lands within the finish's high-end, grail-tier price bracket rather than true budget territory. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Does Battle-Scarred still look like the Brass finish?

Yes, the concept still reads clearly — brass panels against a black frame — even though the metal looks tarnished and the plastic shows heavy scuffing. You're trading polish for price, not the design itself, since there's no float cap holding this wear back.

Why is Battle-Scarred still relatively pricey for a Mil-Spec skin?

Rarity grade isn't the driver here — The Inferno Collection has been out of circulation since 2013, so supply only trickles in through old Souvenir packages and trade-ups. That scarcity keeps even the roughest grade priced well above a typical Mil-Spec finish.

Is there a StatTrak Battle-Scarred Tec-9 | Brass?

No. This finish has never received a StatTrak release at any wear, so a kill counter isn't available on the regular or the Souvenir version. Both exist purely as standard, non-StatTrak items.