I've been learning computer programming over the last year, and one of my pet projects has been developing an MTG combo calculator. Basically it will let you enter in a combination of cards or parameters, and it'll tell you the likelihood of drawing that combo in X number of cards. For example, let's say you have 4 Royal Assassins, 3 Trip Nooses (Neese? Noosi?), and 2 Swiftfoot Boots' in your deck, and you want to know what the odds are that they'll all be in your opening hand. My calculator will give you those odds. You could also enter parameters like: what are the odds of drawing card X, with a card that has a converted mana cost of 3 or less, and 2 land cards. The number of cards will be variable too, so it will tell you the odds of getting that combo in 7 cards (opening hand), or 8 cards (your first draw), and so on. Right now it works with the csv file type that exports from deckbox, so you can build your deck here, export the file, and my program will read all the information from it.
The thing I love most about MTG are the combos, and the thing I really love about games in general is the meta element of crunching numbers to help make decisions. So I'm just wondering, would any one else be interested in using something like this? From the searches I've done, it doesn't seem like any of the online tools have this kind of functionality. Right now everything runs through a linux command line, and I have absolutely no user interface because to be honest I haven't learned that stuff yet. But if anyone thinks this might be useful I'd be willing to port it to windows and take a stab at an extremely basic GUI. Even better, does anyone have any suggestions on what features they might like to see?
Feel free to answer the poll, or just let me know what you think. Any input is much appreciated.