It’s Friday, and here on No Rerolls that means it’s time for an all-new 5 on Friday. We’re going to start with 5 exciting releases for this week before moving on to our usual digest of some of our favourite articles from the past week. Of course, we’re slow readers, so don’t be surprised if there are some articles that are a little older – these are just some of the great articles we happen to have actually read in the past week.
Releases & Previews
Every week there are many games, books, and miniatures released. This will probably be a mix of previews, preorders, and releases, and with release dates being the way they are in this industry, it’s always pretty approximate. Excuses out of the way, here are 5 of the releases that caught our attention this week:
Games Workshop releases a new Maggotkin of Nurgle Spearhead set for Age of Sigmar – The new Spearhead: Maggotkin of Nurgle packs a delightfully disgusting mix of units: a Rotbringer Sorcerer, a hulking Beast of Nurgle, a swarm of six Nurglings, and ten Rotmire Creed cultists. It’s a compact force that shows off every flavour of Nurgle’s rot‑soaked aesthetic.
On the table, this Spearhead gives you a sturdy hero, a disruptive monster, objective‑swarming daemons, and a ranged‑pressure battleline — everything you need to ooze into Age of Sigmar 4th Edition with a fully functional, thematically unified warband straight out of the box.
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Black Vans, a supplement for Deviant: The Renegades, released – Black Vans is the new Storyteller’s Guide for Deviant: The Renegades, written by Eric Zawadzki. Developed independently after Paradox halted new official CoD projects, it expands the tools available for running Deviant chronicles with deeper guidance, structures, and Storyteller support.
I’ve always loved the idea of Deviant – the broken experiments fighting back against the people who made them – even if I’ve never dug into the system in any real depth. Black Vans feels like the kind of supplement that might finally pull me in: a focused Storyteller guide that clarifies conspiracies, sharpens chronicle structure, and makes the whole “renegades vs. the machine” premise easier to run at the table.
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Dranda Games releases Mutagen – Mutagen is a 1920s‑themed biopunk worker‑placement game where your oversized meeple‑workers literally mutate over the course of play, gaining new limbs, organs, and enhancements that change what actions they can take and how far they can push them.
Across a tight 60–90 minutes, you’ll gather resources, upgrade your ship, curry favour with powerful patrons, and snap physical mutation pieces onto your workers to unlock new abilities; a tactile, strategic twist that makes every upgrade feel like a strange little triumph.
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Thunderglyph Games to release Cat-A-Comb – Honestly, this game mostly caught my attention because it’s in a can:
The game sees players playing tricks and pranks on one another. Cats are placed and moved until your cats sit atop 3 stacks of 3 cats, or on top of all region tiles of the same colour. It looks to be a quick, fun, little game that is presented very well.
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Preorders are up for Magic the Gathering’s Lorwyn Eclipsed set – Lorwyn Eclipsed is Magic: The Gathering’s long‑awaited return to the beloved Lorwyn–Shadowmoor plane, releasing in January 2026. The set revisits the whimsical yet eerie world of changelings, fae, and elves, now transformed under a new eclipse‑driven storyline.
Packed with hybrid mechanics, typal synergies, and returning keywords like Changeling, Evoke, Persist, and Transform, Lorwyn Eclipsed blends nostalgia with fresh design. Iconic characters such as Ashling and Sygg reappear in new forms, while showcase treatments and Commander decks expand the set’s reach across formats. For players who loved the original’s mix of light and dark, this expansion promises both a celebration of Lorwyn’s past and a bold new chapter for its future.
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- Play Booster Box (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Single Play Booster (Element Games)
- Collector Booster Box (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Single Collector Booster (Element Games)
- Bundle (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Draft Night (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Commander Deck: Blight Curse (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Commander Deck: Dance of the Elements (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Standard Deck: Angels (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Standard Deck: Pirates (Element Games | Wayland Games)
- Singles available at Big Orbit Cards
Blog Posts & Articles
The meat of 5 on Friday, the articles are listed in no particular order, so let’s get into some recommendations:
Play These Games! 5 TTRPGs You Haven’t Heard Of @ Burn After Running – This This is a brilliant reminder of how much weird, inventive, and completely under‑the‑radar TTRPG design is happening outside the big names. From monastic mysteries to bureaucratic paranormal ops, transforming‑robot heroics, beach‑horror lifeguards, and angst‑ridden half‑demons, it’s a tour through five games I’d genuinely never heard of, and now absolutely want to. A great piece for anyone hungry to widen their gaming diet in 2026.
The Ubersland Upper-crusters – Part 1 @ Convert or Die – Blood Bowl! Nice, classic Imperial colour scheme here. They look great! I’ll probably do mine in a similar scheme if I ever actually get to them. Let’s not hold our collective breath, yeah?
Weekly Commander: Abuelo, Ancestral Echo @ J.M. Casual Blog – I’ve been looking at some options for a deck for an upcoming club challenge. As part of it, I’ve been looking at building a little package of blink cards. Having gathered some nice blue blink cards, and adding to my existing white ones, this article provides an interesting commander, or even just a cool legendary creature for the 99, for future blinky builds.
The brushes are out! @ Spalanz – this post is a quick check‑in from a painter getting their mojo back, showing off freshly finished Marvel Crisis Protocol minis and some first attempts at Shatterpoint eyes. It’s all about rediscovering the joy of painting, embracing imperfect progress, and letting one good game inspire a whole new wave of brushwork.
Is the Doctor Who RPG Fading Away Into the Vortex? @ Refereeing and Reflection – This is a sharp autopsy of Cubicle 7’s Doctor Who RPG, arguing that deep discounts, thin support, and a muddled second‑edition rules overhaul all point to a line quietly slipping into managed decline. It’s a thorough, almost forensic read that leaves you wondering whether the RPG is about to vanish into the vortex for good.
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There have been a few posts here since my last 5 on Friday:
- Bundle of Holding’s The Painted Wasteland bundle
- A completed squad of cyberpunk police officers
- A review of the 2025 Superman movie
- Thoughts on the MTG card, Natural Order
- Our club’s upcoming Commander typal challenge
- Some completed cyberpunk outlaws
- Thoughts on Cole Wehrle leaving Leder Games
- Something something D&D, something something clothes
- Is Jes Goodwin retiring?
- Linking to a post I like on my other blog
- Lookin’ back at Tzeentch in AoS
This week has seen a dozen completed cyberpunk minis. Let’s go ahead and add them to the painted total!
Purchased: 0
Painted: 18
Catch you next week!
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