Nova | Smart Gun

Nova | Smart Gun released July 8, 2026 as part of the Spy Tech Collection.

It's a Counter-Strike 2-native release, launched after Valve's September 2023 relaunch, with no CS:GO history of its own.

It launched as a Restricted-tier finish, with a Souvenir edition but no StatTrak™ version.

As a finish, "Smart Gun" is applied to the Nova — a pump-action shotgun available to both sides, a step up from the pistols at close range — and carries the purple rarity color every Restricted-tier skin shares on the Steam Market and in-game.

That Restricted classification places it in the middle of the rarity ladder — rarer than Mil-Spec Grade, but short of the Classified and Covert tiers above it.

Nova | Smart Gun ships in all five wear conditions, from Factory New through Battle-Scarred, across the full 0.00–1.00 float range.

As with every CS2 skin, lower float values look cleaner: Factory New copies (roughly below 0.07 float) show the finish at its sharpest, while Field-Tested and Well-Worn pieces make up the most commonly traded middle ground between mint and heavily worn.

Nova | Smart Gun is part of the Spy Tech Collection rather than being unboxed from a traditional weapon Case — the Collection is redeemable through the current Armory Pass, so trade-ups and the Steam Community Market are the main ways to acquire one.

Valve has never published exact Collection odds. The estimate above (1 in 94, 1.0670%) applies the same rarity-tier cascade confirmed for Cases, giving a general sense of scale rather than a guaranteed rate.

Alongside the Normal version, this finish also has a Souvenir edition — there's no StatTrak™ counterpart.

Beyond that, there's no separate "phase" or pattern family tied to this finish in the site's data — it's tracked as a single fixed look across every wear condition it ships in.

As a Restricted-tier finish, Nova | Smart Gun sits among the more common pulls from the Spy Tech Collection rather than being a chase item — a straightforward, affordable way to add a Nova skin to a loadout or collection.

Its Souvenir edition tends to trade at a premium over the Normal version, the same pattern seen across most CS2 skins with that variant available.

Nova | Smart Gun has been part of the Spy Tech Collection since July 8, 2026 — a Counter-Strike 2-native release with no CS:GO-era version to compare it to.

It's one of 3 Restricted-tier items in the Spy Tech Collection, out of 17 items total.

This is one of 47 Nova skins currently listed on the site, spanning multiple rarity tiers.