XM1014 | Heaven Guard (Battle-Scarred)

The XM1014 | Heaven Guard (Battle-Scarred) is a Restricted shotgun in a red finish with hydrographic patterning and angel-wing decals, in its most heavily worn condition. It's the cheapest way into the winged design, trading surface polish for the lowest price on the ladder.

Design

The look is a red body worked with subtle hydrographics and stamped with dry-transfer decals of wings, playing hard into its heavenly motif. Designed by the community artist not_from_Heaven, it ships with a foreboding line: "Sometimes the wings of an angel don't mean salvation."

XM1014 | Heaven Guard (Battle-Scarred) Float and Wear

Battle-Scarred sits at the top of the finish's float range, but that range is capped at 0.50 rather than a full 1.0 — so even the roughest copies never reach the extreme end of the wear scale. Heavy scratching and paint loss spread across the body, yet the red base and winged decals keep the shotgun readable, and it stays milder than a full-1.0 skin would at this grade.

XM1014 | Heaven Guard Rarity

This finish is Restricted — the purple tier, sitting in the upper-middle of the weapon classes above Mil-Spec and below Classified. It's a genuinely uncommon grade to unbox.

XM1014 | Heaven Guard Case and Collection

The shotgun sits in The Huntsman Collection and is unboxed from the Huntsman Weapon Case, released together with The Hunt Begins update in May 2014. As a group the Restricted tier drops around 15.98% of the time from the case (the rate is shared across the tier), and because the case is so old, the market — not fresh openings — is where most copies come from.

XM1014 | Heaven Guard Patterns

No pattern hunting applies here: the design is fixed, so the paint-seed index doesn't rearrange the wings or hydrographic patterning, and every copy carries the artwork identically. With no rare or blue-gem seed in the pool, wear is the only thing that varies from copy to copy.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak™ edition exists too, adding a confirmed-kill counter; it's rarer and more expensive than the standard drop from the Huntsman Weapon Case, and the counter is permanent — it carries over through every trade or sale and never gets wiped. There's no Souvenir variant, as Souvenir weapons are produced only for Major-tournament packages, and this finish never appeared in one.

XM1014 | Heaven Guard Price

Battle-Scarred is the cheapest grade of this premium finish — the entry-level way to run the winged red design for players who care more about the look than the condition. If you want the Heaven Guard for as little as possible, this is the way in. Available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is the Battle-Scarred version still recognizable?

Yes. Despite heavy scuffing across the body, the red base and bright angel-wing decals keep the design readable at a glance in-game. Battle-Scarred is about accepting visible wear in exchange for the lowest price — it doesn't strip the look away, since the bold red and wings still carry the shotgun.

Why doesn't this grade look completely destroyed?

Because the finish is float-capped at 0.50 rather than the full 1.0, its Battle-Scarred copies never reach the most extreme wear. That cap, plus a bold red base that holds its color, keeps the shotgun more legible here than many lighter, full-range skins are at the same grade.

Is there a StatTrak Battle-Scarred version?

Yes. A StatTrak™ Battle-Scarred edition of this finish exists and adds a permanent confirmed-kill counter. It's rarer and pricier than the plain Battle-Scarred copy, so expect to pay more — but you get the cheapest wear grade paired with a tracker that logs kills and never gets wiped through trades.