Evoker

Not to be confused with Illusioner, Pillager, Vindicator, or MCL:Warrior.

For other uses, see Evoker (disambiguation).

Evoker

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition^[1]

Health points	24HP × 12
Armor points	2 ()‌[BE only]
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Illager Monster
Attack strength	Evoker Fangs: Java Edition: Easy: 4HP Normal: 6HP Hard: 9HP Bedrock Edition: 6HP Vex: Easy: 5.5HP × 2.75 Normal: 9HP Hard: 13.5HP × 6.75
Hitbox size	Java Edition: Height: 1.95 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.9 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Spawn	Woodland Mansion Raids

An evoker is a spell-casting illager that can be found in woodland mansions and as part of raids. They are the only source of totems of undying. Evokers use two spells to attack; one that summons armor-piercing fangs and one that summons vexes. This is the only way for vexes to spawn (without using Creative mode or commands).

Spawning

Woodland mansions

Evokers spawn during the generation of particular woodland mansion rooms. They only spawn on floor 2 and 3. They do not respawn after their initial spawn.

Evokers spawned with mansions do not naturally despawn (unless the world difficulty is switched to Peaceful).

Raids

In Normal and Hard difficulty, evokers can spawn during raids by themselves or riding ravagers.

Java Edition

Evokers spawn during raids starting at wave 5. On Hard difficulty, evokers can also spawn riding a ravager at wave 7. Up to five evokers spawn on Hard difficulty. During these events, they may also spawn as a raid captain.

Bedrock Edition

Evokers spawn during raids starting at wave 5. On Hard difficulty, evokers can also spawn riding a ravager at wave 7. Up to five evokers spawn on Hard difficulty. During these events, they may also spawn as a raid captain.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
	Emerald[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	75.00%	1.00	0–3	87.50%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Emerald[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	3⁄4	1	0–3	7⁄8	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
	Emerald[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Emerald[A]	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
	Emerald	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Emerald	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
	Emerald	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Totem of Undying	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Emerald	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25

• 10XP experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.‌^{[JE only]}
  • In Bedrock Edition, evokers always drop 10XP experience no matter how it dies.
• When an evoker spawns as a raid captain, it always drops ominous bottle and its ominous banner on death, while equipped.

Behavior

An evoker moves at the player's sprinting speed, crosses its arms and does not show its hands.

Evokers attack players, adult villagers, iron golems, snow golems,‌^{[BE only]} and wandering traders within 12 blocks by raising and waving both of their arms while looking at their target and summoning magical fangs or vexes, creating different colored particles for the different attacks.

If the player is within a ten block radius and the evoker is not in the middle of summoning an attack, the evoker flees from the player to avoid being attacked.

If an evoker is attacked, all evokers in a twelve block radius become alerted and start attacking the player, even if they are behind walls. In Java Edition, the alerted evokers can attack the player from an infinite distance away, even if the player switches to Creative or Spectator mode^[2]; this can be fixed by relogging the world, or by setting the game rule universalAnger to True. This is only true for the alerted evokers, not the initially attacked evoker.

An evoker is passive to other illagers even if it is harmed. Any evoker can search for and join a patrol if sufficiently near a patrol captain.

In Java Edition, evokers and illusioners are faster without any effects during raids.

In Java Edition, evokers are given three seconds of the Glowing effect if a bell is rung within 32 blocks of them. This applies to both evokers spawned in raids and evokers spawned in woodland mansions.

Evokers flee from creakings when within 8 blocks of them.

Fang attack

The evoker signals this attack by producing purplish-grey particles () and a low-pitched sound.

A number of fangs rise out of the ground around the player, then snap shut and vanish. The fangs also produce brown particle effects when they close.

Players or mobs caught in the attack are dealt 6HP damage, regardless of difficulty‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. This harm is not mitigated by armor but is mitigated by enchantments such as Protection. Any evoker-summoned fangs do not deal damage to any illagers, although fangs summoned or spawned by the player do. When a neutral or hostile mob (except illagers and goats) is caught in the attack, the mob retaliates and attacks the evoker.

Fangs appear no lower than the feet of the lowest combatant and no higher than one block above the feet of the highest combatant. Fangs attempt to appear on the highest opaque block between those two extremes, but fail to spawn if they are obstructed by a solid block. In practice, this means that fangs cannot spawn inside deep pits or on top of high walls, but may, for example, go up a staircase if the target is at the top and the evoker at the bottom, or vice versa. Likewise, an evoker floating in a boat on water cannot summon fangs against a player swimming or floating in a boat because there are no opaque blocks from which the fangs can appear.

The evoker typically summons sixteen fangs in a straight line toward the target. However, if the target is within three blocks of the evoker, the evoker summons the fangs in two circles around itself: the smaller circle has five fangs and the larger has eight. The fangs do not seek the player, thus the player is able to dodge them. Summoning fangs resets the evoker's spell cooldown to two seconds and resets the cooldown for summoning fangs to five seconds.

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  An evoker attacking with its fangs in a straight line
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  An evoker summoning fangs in two circles around it

Summoning vexes

The evoker signals this attack by producing purplish-white particles () for two seconds and a higher-pitched sound. After that, three vexes appear nearby. The evoker can summon vexes as long as there are fewer than eight vexes within sixteen blocks centered on the evoker.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to five seconds and resets the cooldown for summoning vexes to seventeen seconds.

Non-air blocks that obstruct a vex's attempted spawning point will prevent it from spawning, meaning it is possible that a summoning can result in only one or two vexes spawning.

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  An evoker summoning vexes

Combo attack

In Java Edition, evokers may summon two circle fangs while summoning vexes, without any cooldown. It usually happens when a player melee attacks an evoker while it is summoning vexes.

Sheep color conversion spell

When an evoker is not engaged in combat, it can change the wool color of any blue sheep within sixteen blocks from blue to red. This is disabled when the mob_griefing game rule in Java Edition is set to false; however, in Bedrock Edition, evokers can still change a sheep's color even when the mobgriefing game rule is set to false.

The evoker signals this spell by producing brownish-orange particles () and making a "wololo" sound.

This spell resets the evoker's spell cooldown to 3 seconds (60 game ticks) and resets the cooldown for the sheep color conversion spell to 7 seconds (140 game ticks). Evokers look at the sheep they are using the spell on while they are doing the spell until they finish the spell.

The spell is a reference to how priests in Age of Empires can change the team of a troop^[3] by also raising their hands with the same wololo effect.^[4]

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  An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell
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  After the spell, the sheep is red.

Attack pattern data

Bedrock Edition

Evoker fangs

This article is about the evoker fangs in Minecraft. For evoker fangs in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Evoker Fang.

Evoker Fangs

Hitbox size	Height: 0.8 blocks Width: 0.5 blocks

Evoker fangs are entities that evokers use to attack the player (or adult villagers, iron golems, snow golems, and wandering traders) with their fang attack.

The individual fangs in an evoker's fang attacks each have a delay. Before the delay is over, the fangs cannot be seen, although unlike truly invisible entities, fangs in warmup still have a visible debug hitbox. After the delay, the fangs expand into existence, snap shut, make critical hit particles and shrink out of sight again, dealing 6HP magic damage to all mobs standing on the spot. A neutral or hostile mob (excluding illagers and goats) attacked by an evoker fang attacks the evoker that summoned the fangs.

Hitting an evoker in survival mode and converting the gamemode into creative mode still causes the evoker to summon fangs and vexes at the player, although they deal no damage.​

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Evoker	evoker	illager illager_friends raiders	entity.minecraft.evoker
Evoker Fangs	evoker_fangs	None	entity.minecraft.evoker_fangs

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Evoker	evocation_illager	104	evocation_illager illager mob monster	entity.evocation_illager.name
Evoker Fangs	evocation_fang	103	None	entity.evocation_fang.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

Evokers have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Evoker fangs have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 41 monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
		We're being attacked!	Trigger a Pillager Raid.	Walk in a village with the Raid Omen effect applied in 30 seconds.	20	Bronze
		Sound the Alarm!	Ring the bell in a village after a villager has been hurt.	—	20	Bronze
		Feeling Ill	Defeat an Evoker	—	30	Silver
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Voluntary Exile	Kill a raid captain. Maybe consider staying away from villages for the time being...	Kill an entity in the #raiders entity tag wearing an ominous banner: Evoker Illusioner Pillager Vindicator This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 41​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Hero of the Village	Successfully defend a village from a raid	Kill at least one raid mob during a raid and wait until it ends in victory. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 41​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.11			16w39a				Added evokers and evocation fangs.
			16w43a				Added the [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Owner tag to evocation fangs.
1.13			pre5				The name of "Evocation Fangs" have been changed to "Evoker Fangs".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of evokers and evoker fangs have been changed.
			18w47a				Evokers can now spawn in raids.
			19w05a				Evokers are now hostile toward wandering traders.
			19w13a				Evokers can now open doors during raids.
							If raiding evokers killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, evokers celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
			19w14a				Evokers can no longer open doors during raids.
1.18			21w37a				Evokers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
			pre5				Changed the texture to remove its hood.
1.19			22w17a				Changed its models, now the last two rows of pixels on its robes can render.
1.20.2			23w32a				Evokers evoking vexes or fangs now emit an entity_place vibration of frequency 14.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added evokers and evocation fangs.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of evokers and evocation fangs have been changed.
							Evokers are now hostile to wandering traders.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Evokers can now spawn during raids.
							Evokers are no longer hostile to baby villagers.
1.13.0			?				Evokers now have smoother casting animations.
			beta 1.13.0.9				If raiding evokers killed all the villagers in the village or the beds were destroyed, evokers celebrate their victory by laughing and raising their arms in the air.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.22				Changed the texture by removing the hood.
1.20.50			Preview 1.20.50.20				Evokers no longer spawn in Peaceful difficulty.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added evokers and evocation fangs.
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	The size of evocation fangs has been increased to be about 2 blocks high.​
			1.91				Evokers can now spawn in raids.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19							Added evokers and evocation fangs.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Evoker" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Quotes

“

When I added the arms for the spellcasting animation it just looked so funny. We were all joking about how it looked like the priests in Age of Empires, so we started making the priest’s “wololo” noise when we saw them holding up their arms. And since Age of Empires is a Microsoft branded IP and we are also a Microsoft IP now, we were able to get the actual sound effect from Age of Empires too – so it’s exactly the same sound effect!

„

— Jens Bergensten on the wololo sound effect^[4]

Trivia

• The evoker texture includes a white hood. Although never used in-game, it was used in the book Minecraft: Maps,^[5] and on a Minecraft.net article.^[4]
• According to a Minecraft.net article, changing sheep colors is a common hobby among evokers.^[6]
• In Bedrock Edition and Java Edition before 1.13, the evoker's ID is called "evocation_illager" and still exists in Bedrock Edition.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  The old version of the evoker
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  Evoker raid captain In Java Edition
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  Evoker raid captain In Bedrock Edition
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  Evoker summoning vexes
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  Evoker summoning fangs
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  An evoker sitting
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  An evoker riding a ravager

Screenshots

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  An evoker preparing to summon its fangs
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  An evoker attacking with its fangs
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  An evoker summoning fangs in 2 circles around it
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  An evoker summons fangs while its vexes attack
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  An evoker looks on as its vexes lunge toward its target
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  An evoker using its sheep color conversion spell
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  Evoker with an illager banner
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  An evoker casting in a mansion
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  An evoker riding a ravager
• 
  An evoker

Textures

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  Evoker texture file
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  Evoker with hood texture file
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  Evoker fangs texture file

In other media

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  An evoker wearing a wig from "Meet the evoker" Minecraft's blog post, as a reference to the game Age of Empires
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  An evoker within Minecraft Dungeons
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  Artwork of an evoker
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  Evoker action figure
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  An evoker in promotional artwork for the Exploration Update
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  Multiple evokers in promotional artwork for the Village & Pillage Update
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  An evoker in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update
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  An evoker intimidating Kai, clad in the vex armor trim^[7]
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  "Bad Omen", an official T-Shirt design featuring an evoker
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  The evoker fang icon
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  An evoker as seen in A Minecraft Movie
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  Concept art of an evoker from the movie
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  An evoker in the Plastic Texture Pack
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  An evoker in the Mobestiary
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  A LEGO Minecraft evoker

References