The five card types are: Characters (your primary units Quest or Challenge), Items (permanents that provide ongoing effects), Actions (one-time spell effects), Songs (a subset of Actions that can be "sung" for free by a character with sufficient cost), and Locations (place cards where characters can move and generate Lore passively)
Being an instant is what tips this card into being pretty nice
Though it does form part of the base set of cards for Shimmering Skies, if you want to see one extra, special version of a card that was first revealed in the Deep Trouble set (though do be warned its a spoiler if youre looking to take on Ursula in Deep Trouble!), click here for further details!
She has an ability which triggers when shes played too
This makes removing it a bad option for your opponent, which will likely result in you racking up a lot of free early Lore as Tala goes unchallenged