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While some might not resist the temptation to immediately classify and categorize your magic system as though it is a real and already existing thing (which in fact you are only about to start developing), I will do my personal best to try.
Mr. Baker is absolutely correct then he says
...it matters because it fulfills a function in the story...
and I agree wholeheartedly. I'd go even further:
Anything you choose to put into your story has (or should have) a function.
Else it is not necessary and better be left out.
Whatever are your reasons to write your story in fantasy genre, I assume, that the choice is made and there is a dragon somewhere which needs slaying, or a unicorn waiting to be captured, or something else which required to put your characters in a secondary world (or augmented existing one) and arm them with magic, or the opposite–have to battle someone who has magic and does something bad with it. Or any combination of the above and then some.
The point is: if magic is not important for your story, it shouldn't be there. If it is, it better has rules and logic, just like any other element of your story.
Just like a rock-paper-scissor set of rules lets us play the game, there should be one developed for any element you invent, of there will be no game to play. The rules do not have to be detailed (or better yet, they can be as detailed or as simple as you wish them to be), but they have to be set.
One of the funnest parts of writing fantasy is that you do not have to explain magic, and that can let you get away with a lot of things, but, regardless of whether you explain the rules of your magic system to the reader, they have to be set, and you have to follow them.
If you just employ random magic to get out of a dire writing block, it will be immediately noted as cheating and will hurt your story.
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