Sticker | nicoodoz (Foil) | Austin 2025

This is the Foil autograph for nicoodoz representing OG from the BLAST.tv Austin 2025 set. It is an autograph sticker issued as part of the Austin 2025 Contenders Autograph Capsule and carries Valve's designer credit on the art.

The sticker uses the Foil film, which sits above the base Paper layer in the familiar finish ladder used for event stickers. In collector parlance Foil is part of the premium tier of films alongside other premium finishes; it is not the base film and reads as an elevated presentation compared with Paper.

Collectors prize this Foil because it lifts the autograph visually and separates the signature from the base-print versions of the same design. The premium film gives trades and crafts more presence, so Foil copies tend to attract attention that the Paper autograph does not.

The autograph belongs to nicoodoz and ties the sticker directly to his tenure with OG; the full provenance label confirms the signature origin. That direct player link is what lets collectors target this sticker when they want an OG autograph from the Austin 2025 release.

It was released in the Austin 2025 Contenders Autograph Capsule, meaning its siblings are other autographs from the same BLAST.tv Austin 2025 pool. Being from that capsule places it squarely with the other contest-issued autographs rather than community or team-only drops.

Applied stickers get thinner with each scrape and are destroyed if removed, so every craft or application permanently consumes a copy. Clean, unapplied stock therefore only gets rarer over time because every application or craft reduces available pristine copies.

The sticker carries the Remarkable rarity grade and sits in the mid-tier of sticker rarity for its set. That grade informs how many copies were intended versus the lower and higher grades in a capsule's distribution.

Collectors favor Foil autographs like this for dominant craft spots where the signature sits near the weapon's focal point. The stronger reflective film and the autograph together make placements on solid-color fields or large flat faces more popular, which in turn increases demand for clean, well-placed crafts.

Within the Austin 2025 Contenders Autograph Capsule this Foil nicoodoz is one of the signed OG pieces among other event autographs, and its finish places it among the premium presentation options for that capsule. Collectors looking across the capsule will compare signature, finish, and team when choosing which autographs to pursue.