Hot garbage, arguably one of the worst Specialist cards around (Feel free to tell me I am wrong and provide examples of Specialist cards you think are worse)
It is inevitable to make a comparison to Haste when looking at this card, as it is basically the inverse of it: the main two differences is that Captivating Discovery is slotless and Haste is, you know, a good card! Take 2 actions of the same type to perform an extra one, which also allows you some mix and matching because some actions are hybrids of each other (playing an event with Fight is both a Play action and a Fight action) and makes the card fairly flexible to use in most builds
That is not the case here: now you need to perfom THREE different actions, spend your entire turn, before maybe getting an extra action, and all of these actions, both to activate the card AND to gain the extra actions need to be different!
Originally, as it is written this was botherline useless, because the same thing that made Haste strong, also made Captivating Performance weaker, you had to avoid performing actions that overlap in order to be elegible to an action you may or may not be able to perform, and that most of the time was gonna be a Resource or Draw action: given the card's cost in exp and resources, that is pathetic
THANKFULLY, the FaQ did specify hybrid cards ONLY count in the sequence the way you want them to, if you for example use Sixth Sense, you can say you are either Investigating or Activating a card, which turns Captivating Performance to nearly unplayable to just... Bad, to still being a bad card, but actually being usable.
Even them that doesn't remove the problem that the card locks you into really sub-par turn to use, as you need to make sure doing 3 different actions each round to be elegible to another one, which often is of limited use because 3 different type of actions ALREADY covers a good amount of types you can do (at the time of these writing, action types include Activate, Engage, Evade, Fight, Investigate, Move, Play, Resource, and Draw, another FaQ added Parley. I think jury is still out for Forgotten Age's Explore)
And while the resource cost is same as Haste, this is a Level 3 card as opposed to Level 2, costing an extra exp to buy: that is incredibly dumb. This card definetly isn't worth 3 exp, as it is strictly worse than its Rogue's counterpart (which arguable should be higher level) with a stricter requirement of an extra action to trigger (basically a 50% difficulty increase to trigger the effect): even the fact it is slotless does little to change my opinion; sure, a slotless asset is stronger than one taking up a limited slot by design, but it still does take up your decksize space, and if it is far harder to use and has a less tangible benefit, it still not worth using, especially given you have time to play only so many assets before you Doom out.
It's really sad, because I like the concept of Specialist cards, but this ain't it chef: it's cumbersome and underpowered! I tried it on my Jim deck (where I even mistook this took an Arcane slot, hence I had to edit the review) and I wasn't impressed. Doesn't help, most of the people that can use it are Mystics with the exceptions of Lola, Patrice and Lucius, which are the most likely to repeat the same type of action by either keep activating a Spell asset or playing Spell events: if it wasn't for the FaQ specifying how "Hybrid" actions work in relation to Captivating Discovery (as in, you pick as which action they count for between the various eligible options), it would be literally unplayable. And this isn't that great even for the few non-Mystic that can run it.
