
This is not an economy card, as weird as it seems.
3 resources, 1 action, 1 card (because you drew it). That's 5 resources worth of 'just take the resource action' to play this card. It has to trigger 3 times to be 1 resource positive. So, if you trigger it in the same round you play it, you'll be up 1 resource in 2 rounds and you're probably now failing the scenario because in all that time, you didn't play shrivelling or rite of seeking or another spell to let you actually do anything to the game state.
What this card is is a really expensive draw engine that can generate money in a pinch. In a deck that's swimming in money, it can do good work, but realistically, think of it as a way of turning money now into passive draw later and it will find a better place in your deck than if you're relying on it for resources.