Look at the specified number of cards from the top of the encounter deck. If instructed to discard cards, place those in the encounter discard pile. After you have looked at cards from the encounter deck, shuffle the encounter deck. 

Clarifications:

• You may show the encounter cards to other players and discuss your strategy while Analyzing encounter cards.
• The number of encounter cards you may discard (if any) is specified by the effect.
• Most effects only allow you to discard regular cards, meaning you cannot discard Elite cards.
• If you analyze more cards than currently in the encounter deck, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and continue analyzing. (See details under: Empty Deck.)
• Analyzing encounter cards does not allow you to analyze special decks (like the pursuer deck or the prisoner deck) even if they include encounter cards.