Playing Cards of Extended Wardrobe - New Suits for the Deck

I decided to usher in the New Year (today being 01/02/03) with the eternal question: "Why just four suits?

Why not, for example, five? All right, there is vast traditional support for the four-suit paradigm, one suit for each season, don't you know. But a five-suited deck, at least according to its manufacturers, has all kinds of uncharted benefits, namely: "This extra suit brings 13 new cards to the traditional deck of 52 cards, bringing the total to 65 cards. Stardeck players can play eight players in one hand, rather than seven. One can deal longer without shuffling. Additionally, one can get better hands, such as the rainbow hands and the five of a kind."

"How does the introduction of a fifth suit affect poker odds?" rhetorically inquires mathematician Ivars Peterson. "With a five-suited deck of 65 cards, the total number of possible five-card hands is 8,259,888. You can now draw five of a kind, a combination that's even rarer than a straight flush. Indeed, there are precisely 13 ways to obtain five of a kind, whereas there are 50 ways to get a straight flush.

"Moreover, you can have other combinations that consist of one card of each suit. Such a combination is sometimes termed a rainbow. A rainbow straight, for instance, consists of five consecutive cards, each one a different suit. Its value is between that of a straight flush and four of a kind. A rainbow itself (any five cards, each one a different suit) would fall between three of a kind and two pair. It's also possible to introduce rainbow variants of four of a kind, three of a kind, two pair, and two of a kind."

Which makes one ask: "what about the mathematical and even play properties unleashed by a six-suited deck?" And, both lo and behold, Empire Cards manufactures the very aforementioned with which one, should one be so inclined, could play the long-sought-after but previously unobtainable six-player Hearts.