I feel like the best “magic system” has to be the alchemy used in Full Metal Alchemist. Given they treat it more like a science and there are some very clear ground rules regarding alchemy.
To those that don’t know. In FMA, you can use Alchemy to create new matter out of old matter as long as it’s equal in value. For instance if you want to make a wooden table with alchemy, you can but you would need to have a proper amount of wood to actually make it (otherwise it would be either a very tiny or very unstable table). So now ask yourself, what would it take to actually create a human person?
I feel like the best “magic system” has to be the alchemy used in Full Metal Alchemist. Given they treat it more like a science and there are some very clear ground rules regarding alchemy.
To those that don’t know. In FMA, you can use Alchemy to create new matter out of old matter as long as it’s equal in value. For instance if you want to make a wooden table with alchemy, you can but you would need to have a proper amount of wood to actually make it (otherwise it would be either a very tiny or very unstable table). So now ask yourself, what would it take to actually create a human person?