I don't like this as a card in a vacuum, but in the aspect with a whole archetype devoted to defeating side schemes, this can play a role. Damaging the villain is always one of the weakest things to do in a game of Champions because it does nothing to answer encounter cards, so it's hard to want to spend resources completing this. On rate, you spend about 3-4 resources to play and complete this for 5 damage, which is pretty bad though it does scale better in multiplayer. I'd need lots of effects like Followed, Skilled Investigator, Turn the Tide, Chance Encounter, etc to feel like I want this, and even then I'd load up on the basic player side schemes first.