Nova | Mandrel (Field-Tested)

Skin overview

Nova | Mandrel is a skin for Counter-Strike 2. Item type: shotgun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Minimal Wear, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Field-Tested quality — float range 0.15–0.38

The whole float range of Nova | Mandrel is 0–0.5; Field-Tested takes the 0.15–0.38 segment (46% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The 2018 Nuke Collection with 18 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Antwerp 2022 Nuke Souvenir Package
• Austin 2025 Nuke Souvenir Highlight Package
• Austin 2025 Nuke Souvenir Package
• Berlin 2019 Nuke Souvenir Package
• Budapest 2025 Nuke Souvenir Highlight Package
• Budapest 2025 Nuke Souvenir Package

And 7 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 5th of 10 skins Consumer Grade Nova in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.