Hard agree on the cost approach. In my world, elemental magic requires proximity to the element, necromancy requires corpses obviously, and psionics burn out your own neural pathways. No system is universally useful.
One thing that helped me: ask what each system cannot do. If every system can do everything, you do not have three systems, you have one system with three flavours.
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