AWP | Dragon Lore (Battle-Scarred)

The AWP | Dragon Lore in Battle-Scarred (BS) is the bottom band of the scale and the cheapest wear of this finish, and the golden dragon still reads whole here. The scale of this wear of the AWP | Dragon Lore lies between 0.45 and 0.70. The rank is Covert. The AWP belongs to The Cobblestone Collection, and the finish has no ordinary case.

What the AWP | Dragon Lore looks like in Battle-Scarred

The finish is an olive-green rifle with a golden dragon on the side of the receiver. The barrel is orange-gold with diamond-shaped scales, going to dark gray metal at the muzzle. The stock is olive with gold trim and a light panel. Valve calls the picture a dragon woven from knots, and adds that two hundred keys would not unlock its secrets.

Battle-Scarred loses its gilding on the exposed edges: the upper edge of the receiver, the handguard rim, the butt plate and the rings on the barrel. The fine scales on the barrel wear away before the large figure of the dragon, and the dragon itself lies on the flat side panel and holds longest. The skin's float ceiling is 0.70, so Battle-Scarred is shorter here than usual: 0.45 to 0.70.

Where the AWP | Dragon Lore came from

Valve painted the AWP | Dragon Lore in-house, and there is no Steam Workshop submission for it. Valve's catalog lists the finish as number 344, and a pattern reference dates its release to July 1, 2014.

What to check before buying

What separates one AWP | Dragon Lore listing from another:

• float: this wear covers 0.25 of the finish's 0.70 scale, which is 36%;


• the gilding on the edges of the receiver, handguard and butt plate, which shows how far wear has eaten into the top of the finish;


• an applied name and stickers: on the AWP | Dragon Lore they stay with the listing.

The AWP | Dragon Lore has no pattern variants, so there is nothing to choose by there. A Souvenir AWP | Dragon Lore is sold as a separate item with gold tournament stickers, while this page covers the ordinary copy.

What the AWP | Dragon Lore costs in Battle-Scarred

The other wears, relative to this one:

• Factory New is two and a half times dearer;


• Minimal Wear almost twice as much;


• Field-Tested almost one and a half times as much;


• Well-Worn about a third more.

This is the cheapest wear of the finish, yet among Covert AWPs it stands near the very top: in Battle-Scarred, only AWP | Gungnir is higher. Next come AWP | The Prince and AWP | Medusa, each cheaper by more than two times.

Getting the AWP | Dragon Lore

No case holds this finish: copies come from tournament souvenir packages, from ESL One Cologne 2014 to Boston 2018. A trade-up gets the AWP | Dragon Lore as well: ten skins one rank down, from a single collection. Of the Classified skins in Cobblestone there is only M4A1-S | Knight, so the odds of the exchange are one to one.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AWP | Dragon Lore was not released with StatTrak™, but a Souvenir version exists.

Stickers and craft on the AWP | Dragon Lore

The palette of the finish is olive, gold and orange. Stickers in warm tones continue the dragon, while black and dark green ones read on the stock and handguard. The side of the receiver is taken up by the dragon, so stickers on that side would cover the main artwork.

For a craft this means: look for the backdrop for stickers on the other side and on the stock, and leave the dragon's side free.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AWP | Dragon Lore in Battle-Scarred is worthwhile for these reasons:

• you want this finish specifically, and the price of the upper wears is out of reach;


• the dragon on the side matters more than the state of the gilding on the edges;


• you want the AWP for CS2 matches or for a collection of Covert AWPs.

If untouched gilding is needed, the nearest option is Minimal Wear, but it costs almost twice as much, and Factory New two and a half times.