I want to start species collecting and my Pokémon choice was Psyduck and then I saw all the worlds cards… my 2nd next choice would be meowth or piplup.
Are there any really hard meowth trophy cards to get or is it fairly easy to collect all the meowths?
There’s this one:
Ooo that’s an expensive one, other than that is there anything tough? I think that one would be achievable for me as long as there isn’t another spike
Depends on how much you’re looking to spend/what condition you’re going for, but only others I can think of are Kansai Pal City, and JR Ralley Meowth.
Hopefully everything meowth ;p, but yeah thanks I will look into it. Budget isn’t a huge issue since its a long term goal
The one Meowth vanished due to COVID. Gonna be really cool if you did manage to get one.
Here’s the whole story:
OMG that meowth is sick af, If I become a meowth species collector I will definitely keep an eye out on it. But probably a near impossible feat lmao
There is another piplup species collector on the forum with their spreadsheet if you wanted to check that out
Piplup is on several design contest cards. I would avoid.
I have to agree with @Typhlosion_Collector. Stay away from Piplup species collecting unless you wish to be (or stay) poor. Too many design contest appearances.
You could go the route of ignoring all cameos. Do named cards only. That will eliminate trophies right off the bat and is less frustrating overall because you don’t have to inspect literally every card to see if there is a meowth hidden somewhere.
Second this.
I’ll pick up cameos if I feel like it, but they aren’t my main priority. And really, it’s about the fun of collecting in the end, so you can define whatever you want your species collection to be (can exempt other languages, just one rarity of each card instead of every variant, etc.). For example, I’m going after Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff cards, but I don’t plan to break the bank to obtain the E3 promo Hoppip or sample Hoppip.
Did I hear Piplup species collecting?
In seriousness though, I agree with the others in that there are so many design contest cards that feature Piplup. However, SDCC and Tropical Winds are also notable expensive cards.
To see my spreadsheet to see all of the Piplups ever (that I know of, including the full line and Dawn/Hikari/Akari), click here: Piplup Line Collection Tracker - Google Sheets and decide for yourself!
Yeah looks like piplup is near impossible lmao. Meowth it is, since I think the hardest card in rocket brief case promo. Thank you for all the responses <3
Species collecting is as hard as you want it to be. I can collect Charizards without buying 1st ed base. I can collect Koffings without buying a snap card. You set your own goals
There‘s also a meowth matchprint if i remember correctly.
The fun Part about species collecting is that you can set your own scope and include more if you get bored 
I don’t know how hard it is to find these, but unlimited E1 meowth might potentially be difficult to track down too. But it’s all part of the fun!
As others already stated, species collecting allows you to create your own scope.
Set collecting is pretty much set (haha) already.
I recommend starting out by going to Bulbapedia of the species you want to collect, and choose 1 variant/language you want for each artwork. You should be able to complete this for most species rather affordably, because you can pick the level of rarity and cost you want. For Meowth, the non holo would be cheap, the reverse holo of older sets can add a lot of cost. Can start this way, then branch out after completing 1 of each artwork.
Meowth? 
Don’t want to hijack the thread but how hard would it be to species collect espeon in n only English?