Play a second Swamp
The best part of Pip-Boy 3000 is the fact that it triggers on attack and not on combat damage dealt, meaning you can start banking value early with three great options to curve out any issues you may be facing when building your board state
Tip: To avoid checklist cards, try this double-sleeving technique: put inner sleeves on your cards with the open side down, then into solid backed sleeves so you can pull them out, flip them over, keep the game fair and protect your cards
Maybe the colors were printed wrong, the card was cut off-center, or half of one card ended up on another
While Long.dec above is a pretty perfect example of the kind of Draw-seven deck that has historically been the most common source of turn 1 kills the format was once known for, the most extreme example since the advent of the four-of rule is without question the following Broken LED deck from the 1999 Duelist Team Challenge at Origins
And who knows about Thunder Junction