Sticker | Great Wave (Foil) is the foil community artwork from the Operation Riptide Sticker Collection, a premium film take on a Workshop design by Valve. The Foil finish gives the piece more presence on-skin and places it above the paper baseline for collectors watching the capsule ladder.
Sticker | Great Wave (Foil) is the foil community artwork from the Operation Riptide Sticker Collection, a premium film take on a Workshop design by Valve. The Foil finish gives the piece more presence on-skin and places it above the paper baseline for collectors watching the capsule ladder.
Sticker | Great Wave (Foil) is a Foil community sticker from the Operation Riptide Sticker Collection, not an autograph or team mark. It is the workshop artwork version issued by Valve within that capsule and presented in a premium film rather than the base paper option.
This is a Foil film, which sits in the premium tier of finishes above the paper baseline used for most community designs. Films such as Holo, Foil and Glitter are considered premium relative to paper, while Gold and special lenticular or embroidered types occupy the very top or special categories in the finish ladder.
Collectors favour this Foil because the film adds reflectivity and depth to the Great Wave artwork, making it stand out when applied to a weapon. The finish_rank here is premium, so buyers who want a stronger on-skin presence or a more collectible variant of the Workshop image will head for the foil copy rather than the paper.
This sticker sits in the mid bracket for price_tier, meaning it trades above budget-class community papers but below premium grail pieces. For a collector that wants a visible craft without stretching for the top-tier rarities, a mid-tier foil is the pragmatic choice.
Great Wave is a community artwork created under Valve's Workshop program and released by Valve as the official designer. It is not tied to any player or team, so its appeal is purely artistic and tied to the execution of the design itself rather than any autograph pedigree.
This sticker was released in the Operation Riptide Sticker Collection, so it shares its set with other workshop and themed pieces from that capsule. Being capsule-originated fixes its siblings and variants to that release rather than ongoing drops.
Applied stickers can be scraped thinner with a sticker tool and they are destroyed if removed, so every application and craft consumes a copy. That makes clean, unapplied stock finite: every on-weapon craft reduces supply.
The sticker carries an Exotic rarity classification and sits in the high rarity_tier, which signals it is above common community papers and many standard grades. That rarity underpins collector interest and the relative scarcity of clean, high-finish examples.
Foil film rewards placement on larger, flatter panels where the reflective surface plays, so collectors often reserve it for weapons with space to show the art. Because finishes affect how a craft reads in-game, demand for specific films feeds back into which stickers get applied and how often clean copies remain available.
Within the Operation Riptide Sticker Collection, Great Wave exists as the foil variant of a community design among its capsule peers and shares the same Workshop lineage as the other non-autograph pieces. Its foil finish distinguishes it within the capsule's lineup, offering a premium presentation compared with the set's paper baseline.
