By comparison, the highest-known sale of an English card (a 1st Edition Base Set Charizard in perfect grade) was around $420,000 a huge sum, but still only a fraction of the Illustrators price
Plus, you can pay five mana and exile it to return all of your Instant and Sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand as long as you have six Artifacts or more
Decklist Placement: Top 16 - BandaiCardFest - 9-1 - Chealsea Chealsea secured a strong 9-1 record and a Top 16 finish by incorporating a full set of OP15-069-nola as a dedicated board protection package, significantly improving the decks overall resilience and ability to maintain key units on the field
Final Thoughts
The only time youre going to want to use it is if Karlov is preposterously large or someone Wraths and you want to keep them from reanimating a creature down the road (or right now, in the case of things like Puppeteer Clique or Woodfall Primus)
Careful Study 2.0 is obviously one of the best cards in Modern, but that's more a product of what it enables rather than the power level of the card itself