I was pretty sure that fire would either use firestall or nightmares, neither of which I thought we could beat. (I was leaning towards them bringing firestall, hence the fractal deck that had a chance) Therefore our only chance was to hope they didn't :p Apologies to the other ten teams for giving fire such good salvage; I fully expect to see fire win, given that they already can salvage some other fractals this round, too.
And yeah, the 11 upgrades was because trashduke originally had +1 graviton guard for a 31 card deck, but we had to transmute to get it, and I suggested to just drop it so we didn't have to. Apparently we missed an upgrade in the confusion.