I'm curious about something. The wording on the Villa card as it is prevents one from going back to your Action phase if you acquired it during your Night phase, such as with Devil's Workshop. Is that simply an accidental result of the wording used, or is it intentional?
For example, it occurs to me that if the wording were just "return to your Action phase", it would've had the same effect as the actual wording at the time the Empires expansion was issued, and so the "if it's your buy phase" clause was redundant. The difference between those two wordings would only become relevant once Nocturne was released, since that alternate phrasing would allow one to go from the Night phase back to the Action phase
So, at the time the Villa card was designed, were there already plans to introduce the Night phase, so that the wording deliberately excluded the possibility of Night -> Action? It seems deliberate to me, cause otherwise the "if it's your buy phase" seems redundant, since there's a general rule that a card can sometimes dictate something you can't do (like "take a curse" if the curse pile is empty), and that in that case there's simply no effect