You don't really have to draw a lot if you don't want to. If you play the card game for instance, you can get lots of magic from items refined from cards. You can also turn monster drops into magic, and turn bought items into magic.
With 10k gil you can buy 10 tents and refine them into 100 curaga spells. Junction that to HP and you've got a *ton* of HP. If you get an abyss worm card, you can turn that into windmills that refine into tornado magic (I think it's 20 tornados per windmill), if you get a mesmerize card you can turn it into a mesmerize blade (also dropped from the actual enemy) which refines into regen :p. These are just a few examples.
I always found the card game really enjoyable so I got most of my magic through that :p.
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