M4A4 | Dark Blossom (Factory New)

The M4A4 | Dark Blossom in Factory New (FN) is the top wear of this finish, and the other four sit three to four times below it in price. This wear is allotted a float of 0.00 to 0.07. The skin is Industrial Grade and belongs to The St. Marc Collection.

What the M4A4 | Dark Blossom looks like in Factory New

The body is a dark steel gray, covered from muzzle to stock in a fine pattern: blue outlines and brownish smudges of flower buds. Valve describes it as a spray-painted pattern of blue rose buds.

There are no large details. The pattern is even and has no focal point. In Factory New the paint is intact on every surface, so the pattern reads as unbroken.

Where the M4A4 | Dark Blossom came from

The M4A4 | Dark Blossom arrived on November 19, 2019, when The St. Marc Collection was added to the game. That same day Valve launched Operation Shattered Web and announced rewards from four new weapon collections: Norse, St. Marc, Canals and Shattered Web.

What to check before buying

Before paying for the M4A4 | Dark Blossom, look at:

• the float, which should fall inside 0.00 to 0.07, a stretch that takes 0.07 of the finish's 0.50 scale;


• how even the pattern is across the whole body: in this wear it runs unbroken, with no bare patches;


• any name tag and stickers: on the M4A4 | Dark Blossom they stay with the listing.

Every copy carries the same artwork, so wear is the only thing that tells them apart. And between 0.00 and 0.07 even that does not change the look.

What the M4A4 | Dark Blossom costs in Factory New

Set against Factory New, the other wears come out like this:

• Minimal Wear costs almost four times less;


• Field-Tested costs about four times less;


• Well-Worn costs about four times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs about three times less.

The four lower wears sit within a third of one another, so the whole jump in price happens at Factory New.

Among Industrial Grade M4A4s, this finish in Factory New ranks fourth by price out of nine. The M4A4 | Desert Storm, M4A4 | Jungle Tiger and M4A4 | Tornado cost more. The next one down, the M4A4 | Urban DDPAT, is noticeably cheaper, and the rest are cheaper by orders of magnitude.

Getting the M4A4 | Dark Blossom

No case contains the M4A4 | Dark Blossom.

A trade-up contract for it takes ten skins from the rank below, all from the same collection. In The St. Marc Collection the rank below Industrial Grade is Consumer Grade, and the contract returns one of the collection's four Industrial Grade skins.

StatTrak and Souvenir

No StatTrak version of the M4A4 | Dark Blossom has been released. There were no souvenir packages for this finish either, since those existed only for tournament map collections. A souvenir copy can still be built by hand: the Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from your inventory. That is why a stray souvenir copy occasionally turns up even where no packages ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | Dark Blossom

The fine, even pattern takes a sticker on any part, but the dark blue-gray ground swallows dark stickers. Light, bright ones read better on it, white and yellow above all.

Who this wear suits

Buying the M4A4 | Dark Blossom in this wear makes sense if:

• you want the blue-gray floral pattern in its cleanest form, with no wear;


• you need an Industrial Grade finish with zero wear for a display in CS2;


• you are putting together a set from The St. Marc Collection, with floral skins such as the AK-47 | Wild Lotus alongside.

Wear in CS2 changes nothing about how the weapon shoots. If price matters, the lower wears are three to four times cheaper and keep the same pattern.