The Bite-Sized series of articles is meant to take the most powerful cards in Dominion and give a short explanation of what makes them powerful.
Going back to your Action phase is extremely good when you can use it to play actions that you might have drawn dead, this is most of what makes Villa so good. Launch is more accessible at the $3 price point than any other way of returning to your Action phase, and gives you a card and a buy on top of that.
While this doesn’t have the synergy with gainers and cost reduction that Villa has, it does draw a card and still has the terminal draw and draw-to-X synergies.